Connectionists: How the brain works

[Danko Nikolic]

On 28/05/14 14:27, Juyang Weng wrote:
>
> What about a primate, an animal, and an inset. How many traverses does 
> each have?
>

They all have three traverses. They are all biological behaving systems.

Let us put it that way:

- A small computer is more adaptive than a gigantic book.
- A small AI system is more adaptive than a gigantic (non AI) computer.
- A small animal is more adaptive than a gigantic AI system (of today).

A human is different from an insect by the amount of cybernetic 
knowledge, not by the number of traverses. The total amount of 
cybernetic knowledge is called *variety* after Ashby, and is a different 
property of the system than is a traverse.

Our total intelligence is a combination of the two: variety + traverses.

We humans are at leading positions at both: we are more adaptive than 
any other high-variety system. And we possess more variety than any 
other high-traverse system.

That is how we rule the world. For now.

Danko


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