"They all work with symbols (numbers, letters, pictures, time stamps, etc.)"
This is WRONG. Most current high performing statistical learning systems start at a very sub-symbolic level.
"AI guys cannot even conceive that the brain can be anything other than what they know: a computer."
I don't think he understands basic computer science. If you have enough capacity, you can simulate anything--this has been validated time and time again.
"So-called “place cells” do not form cognitive maps (i.e. representations of the world) but multimodal stories of a user’s individual experience."
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 15.6 ms ] thread"They all work with symbols (numbers, letters, pictures, time stamps, etc.)"
This is WRONG. Most current high performing statistical learning systems start at a very sub-symbolic level.
"AI guys cannot even conceive that the brain can be anything other than what they know: a computer."
I don't think he understands basic computer science. If you have enough capacity, you can simulate anything--this has been validated time and time again.
"So-called “place cells” do not form cognitive maps (i.e. representations of the world) but multimodal stories of a user’s individual experience."
Interesting idea I guess.