This universality should imply that the more of that substrate you have available, the smarter you will be, right? Well, not quite.
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The brain, with its self-similar structure, most likely implements a kind of universal information processing substrate -- for example, if you redirect visual input to the auditory cortex in mice, they learn to see with their auditory cortex.
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Remarkably, significant cortical lesions happening early in the developmental process often don't result in cognitive impairment, suggesting that the *quantity* of processing substrate that you have available is not the bottleneck to your intelligence (if you have enough of it).
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If you were to be born with a neocortex twice larger than normal (a very big head), would you be super-smart? Most likely, you'd learn to use that extra brain tissue, yet you would not see significant cognitive benefits. The bottleneck to scaling intelligence isn't your brain.
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Source?
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But a bigger hippocampus will certainly enable one to get a London taxi license: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-athletes-way/201510/how-big-is-your-hippocampus-does-it-matter-yes-and-no …
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@fchollet, I think you might want to check out my PVM idea (see e.g. talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBtlQM_pPi0 … ). It is an attempt to host a bunch of these properties in ML and create the substrate you are talking about. Much to do still though.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Would love to hear your thoughts on how the tiny brain of Megaphragma mymaripenne might work. Only 7400 neurons total but it can fly, navigate, find food and hosts for its eggs. Seems impossibly tiny - 0.2mm its smaller than an amoeba.pic.twitter.com/7JlDiqwM8g
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"The bottleneck to scaling intelligence isn't your brain", then what is it?
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Environment + training?
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Can you or someone else please point me to the paper where I can read about this.
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