Re: Load User module
- Posted by Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> Nov 09, 2002
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On 9 Nov 2002, at 7:07, jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote: > > On 0, Kat <kat at kogeijin.com> wrote: > > But the human brain is not one massive neural net, it is divided ineto > > descrete sections, and a few have been mapped reliably, like sight, hearing, > > speech, and various limb move areas. And in the frontal cortex, some areas > > are > > specific to reason, some to inhibitions, and some to interface to the non- > > thinking parts of the brain, like the autonomic system and the lower > > instincts. I believe the parts not found yet which regulate these smaller > > nets > > is what is learning new functions, not the nets. The nets are reprogrammable > > to different patterns, but what determines when and how to reprogram them? > > > > Kat > > There is no "master" control which does this. It may be true that the > brain is > made of several neural nets (I don't know this, I'm not up-to-date in > this > area) but thats probably due to the input/output mechanism of the neurons > themselves. If, for example, sight was cut off, then no more input from > those sensory nerves would occur. Therefore, the neurons would then have > to > "listen" to the surronding neurons, which in turn causes them to change > function. > However, while the eyes feed the visual cortex with input, it listens to > that, > as that would be stronger than the surronding input from surronding > neurons, > which would be as if it were noise, perhaps. Note that the mechanism > behind > this power of the brain is still not fully understood, so what I say is > just > my theory of how it might work. Ok, lets not limit CK's worm to this, lets allow a faster reprogramming when input is lost. Kat