Re: Load User module
On 9 Nov 2002, at 7:07, jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
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> 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
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