Short answer: I had just read an article on a book called “The Root of Thought” which made it sound like it was making a very convincing case for a lot of higher thought being based in glial cells and not neurons.
It would have been fun and educational to get everyone to say they were 99.999% confident that thought was neural (which I would have done before reading the summary) and then spring the whole glial cell thing on them.
But I ended up not having time to read or even acquire the book, and no one really took the bait anyway. But yeah, “Root of Thought”. If any of you have read it, please tell me what you think.
Thanks! I was starting to expect something like that, though in fact I’ve only recently become aware that the scientific consensus is shifting away from seeing glial cells as more or less just stuffing.
My mom is a neuroscientist and she mentioned that some time ago, I was planning to question her a little bit more about that topic. (Interestingly given her profession, she is vehemently skeptical that AI is at all possible, but that’s a story for another day.)
Short answer: I had just read an article on a book called “The Root of Thought” which made it sound like it was making a very convincing case for a lot of higher thought being based in glial cells and not neurons.
It would have been fun and educational to get everyone to say they were 99.999% confident that thought was neural (which I would have done before reading the summary) and then spring the whole glial cell thing on them.
But I ended up not having time to read or even acquire the book, and no one really took the bait anyway. But yeah, “Root of Thought”. If any of you have read it, please tell me what you think.
Thanks! I was starting to expect something like that, though in fact I’ve only recently become aware that the scientific consensus is shifting away from seeing glial cells as more or less just stuffing.
My mom is a neuroscientist and she mentioned that some time ago, I was planning to question her a little bit more about that topic. (Interestingly given her profession, she is vehemently skeptical that AI is at all possible, but that’s a story for another day.)