Re: Neural netss (was Re: death of the mind.)

From: Eray Ozkural exa (erayo_at_bilkent.edu.tr)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: 11 Sep 2004 03:31:06 -0700

Wolf Kirchmeir <wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<Fji0d.42244$Nd6.1220168@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> Eray Ozkural exa wrote:
>
> > Wolf Kirchmeir <wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<miF%c.18296$lP4.1274375@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> >
> >>Eray Ozkural exa wrote:
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>>What kind of a programming language would emerge in a NN architecture?
> >>>It's a massively parallel, fine-grained, distributed memory
> >>>architecture. A programming language that doesn't match the hardware
> >>>will not work, hence I think one of the reasons for all the focus on
> >>>K-lines and so forth on Minsky's SOM.
> >>
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>What kind of programming language has emerged in terrestrial nervous
> >>systems?
> >
> >
> > If you mean English, etc., these can be said to be programming
> > languages, but we are talking about lower level languages.
>
> So am I.
>
> So: What low level languages have "emerged" in NNs of terrestrial organisms?
>
> And how can you tell?

We would be able to reverse engineer these languages directly with a
sufficient theory and data, but a theoretical approach is better,
let's try to construct such languages, or evolve them on a computer...

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