Andy_McKenzie comments on We Haven't Uploaded Worms - Less Wrong

89 Post author: jkaufman 27 December 2014 11:44AM

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Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 25 December 2014 04:54:59PM 12 points [-]

Agreed, and this is very similar to what I described in my comment on the other post about this here.

Where I disagree is the sole focus on connection strengths or weights. They are certainly important, but synapses are unlikely to be adequately described by just one parameter. Further, local effects like neuropeptides likely play a role.

Comment author: jkaufman 25 December 2014 07:10:16PM *  7 points [-]

You're right: connection strengths are probably not enough on their own. On the other hand, they're almost certainly necessary and no one has figured out how to read them off of synapses.