No, intelligence is not like height - eviltoast
  • 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦@toad.social
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    4 months ago

    @Soyweiser @sneerclub It is not possible to understand neuroscience using a “hardware/software” paradigm. That is a model created by humans to make building working computers possible. Brains develop without any such abstraction constraining the process.

    • corbin@awful.systems
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      4 months ago

      Or at least what people are thinking of as “software” is wrong; neuroscience is 100% “hardware”. Can’t expect techbros to understand memetics or iatrogenic illnesses, though, not when they’re fixated on the idea that people with depression/schizophrenia/etc. are having “issues” rather than experiencing society.

      • froztbyte@awful.systems
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        4 months ago

        non-linear analogue electrochemo-computer with distributed processing centers, multiple unmapped signalling sidechannels, multiple overlapping interdependent sets of subsystems, liquid temperature management, and no jtag

        and that’s just on the intro leaflet