Deep learning is to biological neural systems as quantum theory is to consciousness. @KordingLab @tyrell_turing @tdverstynen @GaryMarcus @GaryMarcus @danilobzdok @kendmil
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Replying to @neuro_data @KordingLab and
There's a major difference: DL was guided in its infancy by ideas from neuroscience, so there is a relatively direct link between them. In contrast, the application of quantum mechanics to the c-word is taking two distinct fields and tying them together on speculative grounds.
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Replying to @tyrell_turing @neuro_data and
The relation between deep learning - with its single neuron type and largely homogenous architecture - and the actual complexity of the human brain, with > 1000 neuron types, hundreds of proteins at each synapse and > 100 distinct brain regions - is risible.
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Replying to @GaryMarcus @tyrell_turing and
In my day job as a neuroscientist, i spend a lot of time thinking about the complexity due to cell types, proteins etc. Some of these details may turn out to be crucial. But we can't be sure which ones (although i do have opinions)
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Replying to @TonyZador @GaryMarcus and
Indeed, and I also have opinions, e.g., I suspect dendritic trees are actually critical. :) It will be fun, IMO, to spend the next few years trying to figure out what is or is not the key aspects for capturing algorithmic level descriptions of neural processing.
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with you on the dendritic trees!
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