Love or hate just please explain why. This isn’t my area of expertise so I’d love to hear your opinions, especially if you’re particularly well versed or involved. If you have any literature, studies or websites let me know.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Okay, but like… that’s all we are too.

    Whoever told you that was lying to you or misinformed. Neuroscientists do not look at the brain as a probabilistic prediction tool. You are not a database with weights, you’re a human being with experiences, emotions, and thoughts.

    • theherk@lemmy.world
      33·
      2 days ago

      We are nearly precisely that. The brain functions as a massive, self-organizing neural network where cognitive architecture is determined by the strength of connections (the biological equivalent of adjustable computational weights) that modulate signal transmission via the flow of ions.

      Every decision made or breath taken is the outcome of how ions flow through this network.

        • theherk@lemmy.world
          32·
          2 days ago

          That isn’t likely to happen. Fortunately, neither have I said that. But a pithy comeback won’t change the accuracy of the brain being a self-assembling probabilistic network. All your memories, experiences, and emotions are part of that.

          • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            41·
            2 days ago

            Rewording a description of what an LLM is and saying brains are just like that is still saying that brains work like LLMs, even if you didn’t use those exact words. The acknowledgment that neurologists do not find evidence to support that is pretty much all that is necessary to tear that down, no matter how many times you repeat it.

            • theherk@lemmy.world
              22·
              2 days ago

              If I say “A screwdriver is a tool,” and “The brain is a tool,” am I then saying “The brain is just like a screwdriver”? Or is it possible that applying seconding order logic to an admittedly and clearly reductive statement I made isn’t productive?

              And which part of the brain description is inaccurate, specifically?