RE: We are no different than computers
May 13, 2015 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2015 at 6:18 pm by emjay.)
(May 13, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Rhythm Wrote: We're looking for something that performs the gate function - which, obviously, anyone doing comp architecture would just call a gate. It may not be structured like a digital gate, but a string gate isn't structured like a digital gate either, and so it shouldn't surprise us to see that a biological gate is different from a digital or string gate. Yes, we're looking for NAND, but we're not looking for any specific -type- of NAND. No one expects to crack someones skull open and see a bunch of analog tubes rendered in biological material fall out, amiright?
OK got yer again. I think it's very well possible that any gate you care to mention could be achieved in the neural networks of the brain because it's actually a lot more complex that most people, including me, are capable of imagining. In the cerebral cortex for instance, I believe, the axons of neurons can have about 1000 axon terminals and there are exponentially more post-synaptic sites on the dendrites and cell bodies of the receiving neurons. So though the popular conception of neurons is of a cell with one process coming out the front (the axon) and a dendritic tree of branches coming out the back onto which axons synapse, in fact the single axon has several 'terminals' where it can synapse with another cell and it can even synapse directly with the cell body of a cell. Anyway add to this inhibitory neurons, along with feedforward and feedback connections between six or seven layers in the cerebral cortex and I wouldn't be surprised at all that there could be many logic operations in action there.
Anyway give me a few days and I'll make it my project to figure out how it could work and do some research into possible work already done on it.
