On Jul 22, 10:18 pm, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > Well at least we've got the contradiction compressed down into one > sentence: "Degradation is preserved with high fidelity."
Is it a contradiction to say that someone is having a bad conversation over clear telephones? > > ...A neuron is more than it's communication. > > Not to the next neuron it isn't...and not to the efferent neurons. If > there is something that isn't communicated, it can't make a difference > to behavior because we know that muscles are moved by what the neurons > communicate to them. Muscles aren't moved by neurons, muscles move themselves in sympathy with neuronal motivation. Behavior isn't everything, especially a third person observation of a behavior on an entirely different scale of physical activity. > Or as Bruno suggests, just model it at a lower level. Of course if you > have to model it at the quark level, you might as well make your > artificial neuron out of quarks and it won't be all that "artificial". Exactly what I've been saying. If you model only the superficial behaviors, you can't expect the meaningful roots of those behaviors to appear spontaneously. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
