I remember a recent article saying that trees
under stress (fire, disease, termites, ...) send
specific proteins out to the rest of the forest,
and the sensing plants in the area that detect the
signals start preparing to survive the threat in
question. (01)
So there are deep chemical pathways, in paramecia,
in plants, and certainly within mammal brains, by
which the cells intercommunicate. Figuring that
out will take an enormous amount of time and work. (02)
-Rich (03)
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Sabotaging a
communication system is not a new idea (05)
On 11/25/2014 1:10 PM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
> If I remember right, the problem is that the
connectome does
> not include synaptic strength and other
important details and
> that you have to simulate body and environment
in great detail
> too to get the right inputs and test the
simulation. The chemistry
> and physics matters - especially with only 302
neurons. (06)
All those points are important. (07)
Furthermore, a single-celled paramecium, which has
no neurons
of any kind, exhibits complex behavior: finding
food, mating,
recognizing obstacles, and "remembering" them long
enough to
navigate around them. (08)
Experiments show that a paramecium is also capable
of learning
-- in the sense that it responds faster to stimuli
that it had
previously encountered and responded to
successfully. (09)
Since the structures of any cell of any animal
(including neurons)
are as complex as those in a paramecium, it seems
likely that each
neuron has similar capabilities. That implies
that the so-called
"neural networks" that treat each neuron as a
simple switch are
grossly oversimplified. (010)
John (011)
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