astonished that anyone knowledgeable could claim that neural nets are (obviously) an “abstraction of neural processing” when we don’t yet know how brains work. if you don’t know how Y works you can’t really speak with certainty about whether X is an abstraction of Y. Period.https://twitter.com/tyrell_turing/status/1200072223299657728 …
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Important to keep in mind the neurons of the C elegans worm are different from most regular neurons. they don't fire spikes, but rather have slow graded potentials, and the relationship to synaptic release is not clear in that case. Mammalian neurons are somewhat "simpler".
Am familiar with the argument, but then against it's not like we have a full understanding of (any) mammalian brain, either.
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I agree. potentially insects could be a good "beach head". I think it is interesting to ask: from a behavioral standpoint, can we mimic a bee's behavoir with a computer? Compute power cannot be a limiting factor here. They only have about 1M neurons.
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Bees are awesome. When we can get a biologically plausible neural network to capture how bees generalize the solar azimuth function to unseen lighting conditions (see Algebraic Mind for references) I will be a happy camper!
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