RE: Organisms and computers
May 25, 2016 at 3:50 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2016 at 3:59 pm by Alex K.)
The same things the author finds so special about the brain are also true for deep neural nets, including the ones running on digital computers. The author seems to work with an annoyingly simplistic notion of what computers are or what the current state of the art of understanding the brain is. Smells like strawmanning. He boasts about all the questions the experts couldn't answer - but were they even good questions? Does ANYONE seriously working in the field after 1980 think that the brain works like a simple information processing algorithm?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
