(February 1, 2016 at 9:20 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(February 1, 2016 at 9:14 pm)Emjay Wrote: Do you two comp minders, Rhythm and Jorm, think I'm barking up the wrong tree with my understanding of neural representations? Where neuron as detector represents what it detects and the relationships between those aspects that are active help 'build' more vivid perceptions? Do you think I'm being too simplistic and not giving due attention to the whole circuit and/or system?
I think it leaves untouched the question of what it is that's experiencing these heightened connections as heightened connections.
Yeah. Basically getting caught up in the generality of that idea one thing I forgot is that ultimately neurons are only useful in as much as they can complete a circuit... they're like billions of little switches. So if you have say one input layer, two hidden layers, and an output layer then even if you have a very rich self-sustaining neural representation that makes it to say layer three, if it doesn't make it to the output layer... if nothing gets triggered there then I'd guess it doesn't contribute to the whole system? It's like a dead end? Or did you mean something else?