Re: A question about programming

From: Paul Schlyter (pausch_at_saaf.se)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:13:38 GMT

In article <cdilr0$d4g$00$1@news.t-online.com>,
Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:
 
> Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
>
>> Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>>
>>> If a simulation restricts itself to very local connections,
>>> it wouldn't be good.
>>
>>
>> Well, dammit, you don't really think they have a
>> good simulation of the human brain, do you?
>
> No. The number of neurons is only 1/5 of that of a human
> brain according to their own figure. (I don't know but I
> surmise that a chimp may have quite more than that.) Further,
> what in my view could be crucial is that it's questionable
> whether the artificial neurons have comparable qualities to
> the natural ones in terms of efficacy for realizing
> 'intelligence'. (We don't yet know whether they are superior
> or inferior, do we?) What I wonder is only that they manage
> to 'process' a network that has such a huge dimension and
> presumably also has rather complex ways of connections
> ('topology'), when viewed from the prospective of information
> processing with computers in general.
>
> M. K. Shen
 
These are quite complex questions with no trivial answers. Did
you ask these questions to the authors of this paper? They ought
to be able to give you much better answer.
 
And perhaps you even could find the answers to some of your questions
by actually reading the original paper, in full, carefully, instead of
just some newspaper summary of the paper.... :-) ....yes, it takes
some effort to actually do this....
  

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