When smart people are presented with something new, they tend to ask, "how does it work?": how is it structured, how was it made? But the more important & difficult question is *why does it work*: what is the functional kernel that makes it effective, what guided its evolution?
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The "how" stay at the level of superficial observations. The "why" gets to the heart of the system. It requires a full understanding not only of the system itself, but of the context in which it lives. It requires you to follow the thread of purpose that drove its emergence.
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I've always wonder 'can a brain understand itself.' It seems like there a paradox buried in there somewhere.
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But why is sometimes a fallacy. There is no end to why. You will have to make delineation at a scale. For neuroscience it might be the cellular or atomic. Otherwise you end up with asking why is the universe. So at some point how will have to suffice.
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The brain evolved to move the body it is in. That is what brains are for.
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Why does a neural network work? No one has a clue how they work??
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This is just about asking the right "how". The deeper "how". A true "why" cannot be answered as it leads to a philosophical and existential singularity. I don't mind some good intellectual threads but Aristotle described this in writing 2400 years ago..
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To understand a brain a higher 'brain' is needed!
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Beautiful :)
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