Kind of, but with discrete transitions (at least for the neuronal potential in one direction. There's hysteresis built in). The states are pseudo-binary, very much unlike analog computers.
There's a lot I don't understand in this article, so I'm almost certainly missing the point. But the idea that act of hitting a baseball is complex computation feels intuitively wrong. We don't understand arcs and parabolas as aggregated data points. We understand their abstraction. Our lived experiences are awash in moments of making point on continuums converge. Reach for a coffee cup. Scoop up a toddler. Toss popcorn up and catch it in your mouth. The brain is doing it cheaply precisely because it's not
Analog computers are much closer to the new neuromorphic computing paradigm then the digital one. And they were the first ones used to solve differential equations.
Emphasis on imitating the workings of the brain ignores the fact that our nervous system doesn't end at the neck, and things that we do automatically may require little or no processing in the brain itself. In short, it's a wholistic problem, and looking at individual neurons may not supply the whole answer.
Kind of, but with discrete transitions (at least for the neuronal potential in one direction. There's hysteresis built in). The states are pseudo-binary, very much unlike analog computers.
There's a lot I don't understand in this article, so I'm almost certainly missing the point. But the idea that act of hitting a baseball is complex computation feels intuitively wrong. We don't understand arcs and parabolas as aggregated data points. We understand their abstraction. Our lived experiences are awash in moments of making point on continuums converge. Reach for a coffee cup. Scoop up a toddler. Toss popcorn up and catch it in your mouth. The brain is doing it cheaply precisely because it's not
Analog computers are much closer to the new neuromorphic computing paradigm then the digital one. And they were the first ones used to solve differential equations.
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Emphasis on imitating the workings of the brain ignores the fact that our nervous system doesn't end at the neck, and things that we do automatically may require little or no processing in the brain itself. In short, it's a wholistic problem, and looking at individual neurons may not supply the whole answer.