Learning networks are ubiquituous (if it can be modeled as a network and involves humans or biology it almost certainly is one) and the ones inside our skulls are less of a special case than we think.
oh man, this one’s fun. incredibly agreed, to put it mildly. some of these are aggregates of components that include brains, but: ++anthills, +++markets, metal annealing, ++++cell networks outside the brain, ++bacteria colonies, +++genetic network regulation inside cells, +++plant-environment adaptation, ++community relationship layouts, +database query planners, +++internet routes, rooms people live in,
Anything that is a network of components that bump into each other, has interaction with potentially more-complex components, and whose trajectory into a lower energy state diffuses towards a coherent structure instead of an incoherent one.
This definitely give me a What Is The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You vibe, that we’re too hypercalibrated to the human mind in order to teach simpler versions language and thought to dolphins etc.
Learning networks are ubiquituous (if it can be modeled as a network and involves humans or biology it almost certainly is one) and the ones inside our skulls are less of a special case than we think.
oh man, this one’s fun. incredibly agreed, to put it mildly. some of these are aggregates of components that include brains, but: ++anthills, +++markets, metal annealing, ++++cell networks outside the brain, ++bacteria colonies, +++genetic network regulation inside cells, +++plant-environment adaptation, ++community relationship layouts, +database query planners, +++internet routes, rooms people live in,
Anything that is a network of components that bump into each other, has interaction with potentially more-complex components, and whose trajectory into a lower energy state diffuses towards a coherent structure instead of an incoherent one.
This definitely give me a What Is The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You vibe, that we’re too hypercalibrated to the human mind in order to teach simpler versions language and thought to dolphins etc.