atucker comments on [REVIEW] Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: atucker 24 May 2011 02:57:51AM -1 points [-]

Thanks for writing this!

I particularly like section II, where you summarized specifically how the brain processes particular pieces of information.

Cortial neurons fire almost like independent Poisson processes, resulting in neurons down the line being able to easily extract the mean firing rate of the inputs.

Is soooo much better than "X structure represents averages".

Small detail:

overweighed near zero and overweighted near one. Underweighted near one? (Suggesting to test if I'm accurate...)

Comment author: badger 24 May 2011 05:51:34AM 0 points [-]

Underweighted near one?

Thanks for catching that.