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The way the brain does it is by giving users a largely untrained model that they themselves have to train over the next 20 years for it to be of any use.
by hansworst 2y ago
The way the brain does it is by giving users a largely untrained model that they themselves have to train over the next 20 years for it to be of any use.
- lynx23 2y ago20 years of training is not enough. Neuroscientists say 25. According to my own experience, its more like 30.
- dcuthbertson 2y agoIn the end, it's a life-long process.
- wbillingsley 2y agoSometimes. Foals are born (almost) able to walk. There are occasions where evolution baked the model into the genes.
- tomxor 2y agoYeah that example came to my mind too. I suspect there may be trade off undergoing evolutionary selection here, where for some organisms a behaviour is more important from the offset, it's worth encoding more of the behaviour into genes, at what cost I wonder? It's also possible there is some other mechanism going on at an embryonic stage, a kind of pre-training. I suspect some of the division is also defined by how complex the task is, or how sensitive the model is to it's own neurons (kind of like PNN). I don't have a well rounded argument, but my instinct is that encoding or pre-training walking is far easier than seeing. Not to mention basic quadrupedal walking/standing is far easier than bipedal, they can learn the more complex coordinated movements after.
- salomonk_mur 2y agoIt is extremely trained already. Everyone alive was born with the ability for all their organs and bodily function to work autonomously. A ton of that is probably encoded elsewhere, but no doubt the brain plays a huge part. And somehow, it's all reconstructed for each new "device".