Manfred comments on Looking for a likely cause of a mental phenomenon - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 02 December 2012 05:25:28AM *  0 points [-]

No idea - it's just the analogy I use for myself :) I think of it like a continuation of the learning process, but I don't know if the brain actually represents solutions as a favored arrangement of cells, and I don't know if there's some changing noise source that would lead to something like annealing.