Three months ago, I learned that narcolepsy patients quite literally experience sleep and unconsciousness asynchronously, and synchronization is normally achieved through regulatory cells that produce hypocretin. Hypocretin, like anesthesia, acts on neuron microtubules. This has led me to a greatly increased interest and confidence in theory surrounding neuron microtubules as a processing unit, and I wonder if anyone in the AI community has considered the implications.
If microtubule lattices are storing or calculating information, it implies that the brain is actually calculating at least \emph{three magnitudes larger} bits of info per second than previously thought with a stunning level of parallelization & connectivity. This sets the bar for human-level intelligence significantly higher, and I would be very interested to see how much this affects growth projections that get tossed around & the confidence assigned to said projections.
Three months ago, I learned that narcolepsy patients quite literally experience sleep and unconsciousness asynchronously, and synchronization is normally achieved through regulatory cells that produce hypocretin. Hypocretin, like anesthesia, acts on neuron microtubules. This has led me to a greatly increased interest and confidence in theory surrounding neuron microtubules as a processing unit, and I wonder if anyone in the AI community has considered the implications.
If microtubule lattices are storing or calculating information, it implies that the brain is actually calculating at least \emph{three magnitudes larger} bits of info per second than previously thought with a stunning level of parallelization & connectivity. This sets the bar for human-level intelligence significantly higher, and I would be very interested to see how much this affects growth projections that get tossed around & the confidence assigned to said projections.