Seeing red

[bennyboy]

There's chaos aplenty in those states and systems.  Minor defects to full on malfunctions and even the micro climate in the few millimeters surrounding the circuits all cause a dazzling array of hilarious errors.  We design our machines to run over these, for the most part.  As you lose portions of the system to physical damage you lose range of function from those portions.  Think of losing a neuron, for example, as losing one of your computers cores.  A neuron isn't just a bit of data, it's got significantly more going on than that.

Living and teaching in Korea, I've talked to some electronic engineers, and they tell me that chips now have built-in error checking to account for quantum tunneling-- or at least that their architecture is arranged in a way to limit the effect, which is real at few-nanometer chip architecture.  Believe that shit.

I have a question for both of you.  Do you believe that if you reduce brain complexity by pulling neurons 1-by-1, the results will become more stable, or more variable?