Kevin Mitchell
@WiringTheBrain
Neurogeneticist interested in genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018), FREE AGENTS (2023). https://t.co/PdgAxi6myV
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http://wiringthebrain.blogspot.com 28-06-2011 19:15:48
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Tony Zador this was very inspiring work, showing proof of the principle: 'reliable circuit function from unreliable components'.
The open question for me is whether and how such reliability can emerge in other circuit coding regimes. Synchrony is one mechanism but likely not the only one
On the understanding and acceptance of *enabling* constraints:
“Reasons are constraints. […] Selfhood entails constraints: they are what selves are made of.”
Free Agents by Kevin Mitchell
Somehow echoing Context Changes Everything by Alicia Juarrero
Just finished 'Mind at Play' by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman A long overdue read on the founder of information theory. Some of my highlights...
Kevin Mitchell Arkadiusz Synowczyk 📖 Recommended reading:
💠 'Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will' by Kevin Mitchell
💠 An Interview with Kevin J. Mitchell by Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
💠 'How Life Evolved the Power to Choose' by Kevin Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell Getting closer, but the 'simply' does a lot of work here. So does 'relational', 'contextual', etc.
Fleshing those notions out in rigorous explicit detail is what's required to provide a naturalistic explanation for meaning, imo. Really great to follow the development!
Cian O'Donnell Rishikesh Narayanan Timothy O'Leary peter sterling BTW, if i remembercorrectly, a single synapse has ~several dozen of AMPARs, so it will be noisy even with a pure simulation with identical glutamate release, provided we include ion channel stochasticy.
And it's not enough to remove the variance via central limit theorem