RE: We are no different than computers
May 13, 2015 at 4:07 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2015 at 4:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
LOL, no, electrical engineers are accredited, and have certifications......I'm just a guy with an HDL that knows how to print boards and solder comps.
(got into it when I was a kid, worked under the table at a rapid prototyping house - then I went back into it professionally, as management after the service and some school (mech engi, not electrical). It's actually really simple. You, as a programmer, could increase your value greatly by learning hardware architecture.
On topic, though - yeah, NAND is brilliant. The answer that ctm might offer, regarding brain structure..is that our nuerons are most definitely -not- nand gates..but nand simply describes an implementation of an implicational relationship within the boundaries of whatever material it was formed from. So, say, a string NAND is not capable of everything that a digital NAND is capable of (that's why string comps like our targeting systems from ww2 went out as fast as they came in). Similarly, a nueral net may be performing NAND, it may be arranged so that a NAND can be applied to data, and even though it's not, strictly speaking, built -as- a NAND...it is capable of performing the NAND function. The NN has the better explanation for implementation, imo...while CTM has a better explanation of the underlying principles. That's all just my opinion. In short, it's much more likely, between the two, that our brains are structured as NN, however, the manner in which the NN works leans on classical computing, CTM.
(got into it when I was a kid, worked under the table at a rapid prototyping house - then I went back into it professionally, as management after the service and some school (mech engi, not electrical). It's actually really simple. You, as a programmer, could increase your value greatly by learning hardware architecture.
On topic, though - yeah, NAND is brilliant. The answer that ctm might offer, regarding brain structure..is that our nuerons are most definitely -not- nand gates..but nand simply describes an implementation of an implicational relationship within the boundaries of whatever material it was formed from. So, say, a string NAND is not capable of everything that a digital NAND is capable of (that's why string comps like our targeting systems from ww2 went out as fast as they came in). Similarly, a nueral net may be performing NAND, it may be arranged so that a NAND can be applied to data, and even though it's not, strictly speaking, built -as- a NAND...it is capable of performing the NAND function. The NN has the better explanation for implementation, imo...while CTM has a better explanation of the underlying principles. That's all just my opinion. In short, it's much more likely, between the two, that our brains are structured as NN, however, the manner in which the NN works leans on classical computing, CTM.
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