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

From: Eray Ozkural exa (erayo_at_bilkent.edu.tr)
Date: 09/23/04

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    feedbackdroids@yahoo.com (dan michaels) wrote in message news:<8d8494cf.0409201451.4732472c@posting.google.com>...
    > The question is, for brain studies, do you need to go all the way to
    > describing the actions of individual biomolecules?

    We might have to. We don't know yet. We only hope that is not the
    case, but the brain surely works at a molecular level. The information
    theoretic approaches try to abstract away from the chemistry, and
    that's how brain operation should be modelled, e.g. at the level of
    bits.

    Regards, 

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Eray Ozkural
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