See my answer to mlem_mlem_mlem for the second part of your comment.
You are bringing another interesting point: scaling up and tuning.
As I indicated in the roadmap, nature has chosen the way of width to that of depth.
The cortical sheet is described as a 6 layers structure, but only 3 are neurons and 2 pyramidal neurons. That is not deep. Then we see columns, functional ‘zones’, ‘regions’… There is an organisation, but it is not very deep. The number of columns in each ‘zone’ is very large. Also note that the neuron is deemed ‘stochastic’, so precision is not possible. Lastly, note (sad but true) that those who got the prize worked on technical simplification for practical use.
There is two options at this stage:
We consider, as the symbolic school has since 1969, that the underlying substrate is unimportant and, if we can find mathematical ways to describe it, we will be able to reproduce it, or...
We consider that nature has done the work (we are here to attest to that), properly, and we should look at how it did it.
1986 was an acceptable compromise, for a time. 2026, will mark one century of the 5th Solvay conference.
See my answer to mlem_mlem_mlem for the second part of your comment.
You are bringing another interesting point: scaling up and tuning.
As I indicated in the roadmap, nature has chosen the way of width to that of depth.
The cortical sheet is described as a 6 layers structure, but only 3 are neurons and 2 pyramidal neurons. That is not deep. Then we see columns, functional ‘zones’, ‘regions’… There is an organisation, but it is not very deep. The number of columns in each ‘zone’ is very large. Also note that the neuron is deemed ‘stochastic’, so precision is not possible. Lastly, note (sad but true) that those who got the prize worked on technical simplification for practical use.
There is two options at this stage:
We consider, as the symbolic school has since 1969, that the underlying substrate is unimportant and, if we can find mathematical ways to describe it, we will be able to reproduce it, or...
We consider that nature has done the work (we are here to attest to that), properly, and we should look at how it did it.
1986 was an acceptable compromise, for a time. 2026, will mark one century of the 5th Solvay conference.