Seems to me there's a question of dynamic range, temporally speaking. In classical computers, that is dealt with by separating exponents and mantissas as in floating point arithmetic. If everything compresses by 7 order of magnitude, then perhaps it would just be a matter of adding 7 more digits (e.g. bits) of precision to the exponent. Then it would be faster and cover the relevant part of the dynamic range of the environment.
-----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 1:22 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] the arc of ai (was Re: Whew!) What if faster firing tightened a brain's coupling to its environment, rather than loosening it? That would suggest that brains with fast neurons would be _less_ tolerant of ambiguity, not more. One couldn't think deeply about anything because the environment would keep you locked in a kind of stimulus-response cage ... a slave of your own fast firing neurons. On 05/08/2017 08:45 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > A fun fact that I ran across last week: A superconducting neuron made of > Josephson Junctions could be 7 orders of magnitude faster than those in the > human central nervous system. Being superconducting there would be no heat, > and the possibility of deep 3d integration. > > Of course, lithography won't be adaptive unless it is way overbuilt and then > trimmed-down. That would be one data point in favor of the adaption being > more important than deep skill. -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
