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Technically they're all the same Turing machine analogy.

Technically they're all the same Turing machine analogy. (Recurrent neural nets aren't really Turing complete, but they become Turing complete if you add repeatable state logic.) It's just that the later analogies include some hint of emergent properties that are missing from the earlier ones. Is the brain really a Turing machine? I doubt it's the right model, but obviously I have no way to prove this. But here's a question - if the brain is a symbolic data processor, what exactly does it process? This sounds like it should have an obvious answer, but the more you think about it (ironically...) the less obvious the answer becomes.

Posted by TheOtherHobbes on May 29, 2015, 12:43 PM

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Technically they're all the same Turing machine analogy.

TheOtherHobbesMay 29, 2015, 12:43 PM

Technically they're all the same Turing machine analogy. (Recurrent neural nets aren't really Turing complete, but they become Turing complete if you add repeatable state logic.) It's just that the later analogies include some hint of emergent properties that are missing from the earlier ones. Is the brain really a Turing machine? I doubt it's the right model, but obviously I have no way to prove this. But here's a question - if the brain is a symbolic data processor, what exactly does it process? This sounds like it should have an obvious answer, but the more you think about it (ironically...) the less obvious the answer becomes.

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