The most remarkable thing about the brain is that it wasn't designed. As a result, how the brain works is largely an irrelevant question.
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The hypothesis space, the objective function(s). Everything else is noise.
Essentially: it doesn't matter what the answer is, bc one can mechanically derive it once the question has been asked. What matters is the Q
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Precisely. Planes weren't designed by studying how birds fly. The specific solution that evolution arrived at is just one solution.
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...Which is how to secure energy sources. And answer is not always a bigger brain. Evolution didn't go that direction it in most cases.
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unless running the optimization again takes 1B years of evolution, in which case inspecting a solution might be a decent shortcut.
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It would take billions of years for evolution to come up with modern CPUs, too. It took us humans a few decades. We're pretty efficient.
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This is an NP Complete problem though. You can design new approaches based upon what you know. But they will not function how brains do.
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Indeed. It does makes sense. Now, studying how the brain works contributes to understanding that optimization function. No?
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To an extent. Can be helpful, but I would argue most of it is a distraction. The brain is complex, the underlying problem is likely simple
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yes -- a good question is hard to find :)
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