Thread: Artificial Neural Networks

Well, the perfect neural network would simply be a completely accurate model of our brains. That's what is being aimed for. There's no reason to doubt their abilities, unless you think there's something involved in brain activity other than neurons, or maybe if you hold some kind of weird anti-functionalist philosophical belief.

So it would be low-level, then?

As in, just a net of billions of, er, neurons, that exchange information like Memory adresses and when/ how to push bits around?

Because that's basically what our brains do.

Says who?

Nobody knows what corrosponds to a 'bit' in brain terms. It may well use some very exotic form of computation in which the term 'bit' is meaningless. To say how the brain does or doesn't work at the moment is very very premature.

Well, that would be as low level as you could possibly get in a computer, so it doesn't really matter, but don't Neurons use charges that are sent as Synapses? If it's just a charge, and then that is ended with some kind of reaction in the body, i.e. Putting your hand on something hot, the charge sent from the neurons in your hand cause the muscles to move as a knee-jerk response to the situation, not a conscious effort. Or like, when you move any part of your body, that would be your neurons stimulating your muscles into moving. Thinking is what we really don't know much about. How can you explain how thought occurs using non technical terms?