Lumifer comments on Open thread, 3-8 June 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 06 June 2014 04:23:12PM 1 point [-]

You might want to look into what's called ANN -- artificial neural networks.

Comment author: Punoxysm 08 June 2014 06:07:23PM 0 points [-]

ANNs don't begin to scratch the surface of the scale or complexity of the human brain.

Not that they're not fun as toy models, or useful in their own right, just remember that they are oblivious to all human brain chemistry, and to chemistry in general.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 June 2014 01:48:24AM 1 point [-]

ANNs don't begin to scratch the surface of the scale or complexity of the human brain.

Of course, but Cube is talking about "a similar set of basic gates that can be organized into a Turing machine" which looks like an ANN more than it looks like wetware.