Timeline for The mathematical language of the brain
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 23:02 | answer | added | user9166 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 11:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhilosophy/status/978961729576202241 | ||
| Mar 17, 2018 at 15:09 | comment | added | Veedrac | What is definitely clear is that the higher-level functions (logic, language, higher-level reasoning) is not primitive to brains the same way that the basic synaptic inference is; one's conscious thoughts are far from the primary driver. | |
| Mar 17, 2018 at 15:04 | comment | added | Veedrac | I think you're reading a lot more into that pair of sentences than is really fair; the context is really what seems to give it meaning. There are very concrete and meaningful differences between brain function and typical computer function, and a lot of details about the brain have been discovered in recent years of neuroscience research. Though it's not clear what you're really asking. | |
| Mar 17, 2018 at 2:43 | comment | added | Conifold | "Language of thought" was popular in 1970-s, but most now feel that it takes computational theory of mind too literally. The "purpose" of organism's brain is preparation for action, not computation, the usefulness of linguistic and computational analogies to describing brain function is limited. As for metaphorical meaning, von Neumann's quote is a platitude, our formal languages are structurally different even from the natural language, so of course they are different from the "neurolanguage", whatever that is. | |
| Mar 15, 2018 at 19:56 | history | asked | Martin C. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |