Why are you, you?

[Cyclone]

So how do you decide?

 

How do you order a list?

Here's some tips...

http://www.squidoo.com/sorting-algorithms

Not the best example, but fairly quick to hand, i'll find some with animations later.

 

At the end of the day you sort by deciding importance of one item over another by comparison, even though it may not seem binary when looked at as a whole.

 

 

Scale of 1 - 10, hmmm, is it more likely a 1 or a 10, say 1, ok, now is it closer to 1 or 5, hmm say 3, 3 or 4, 3, hmmm, 3 or 2, no i'd say 3.

 

No, I'm not a computer, I don't do a binary tree assigning values to things and working through until I have my binary decision, that's just not how neural networks work.

The way you think you decide things probably isn't very close to the reality of how your brain works. Chemical gradients, multiple input and output signals to/from neurons, nothing binary about it.

[spooky3]

No, I'm not a computer, I don't do a binary tree assigning values to things and working through until I have my binary decision, that's just not how neural networks work.

The way you think you decide things probably isn't very close to the reality of how your brain works. Chemical gradients, multiple input and output signals to/from neurons, nothing binary about it.

 

So how do you decide on an item out of a set of items?

[quisquose]

Today's R4 programme All In The Mind is about how the brain is wired and may be of interest. It certainly was to me.

 

Listen to it here:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wdh8b/All_in_the_Mind_Wiring_the_Brain/

 

I personally think that advances in neuroscience within the next couple of decades will be extraordinary.

[spooky3]

Today's R4 programme All In The Mind is about how the brain is wired and may be of interest. It certainly was to me.

 

Listen to it here:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wdh8b/All_in_the_Mind_Wiring_the_Brain/

 

I personally think that advances in neuroscience within the next couple of decades will be extraordinary.

 

mmm, interesting...

 

I believe i've read something concerning each of these projects in either New Scientist or Focus magazine.

 

Note to self!

 

Hack a fruit fly tomorrow!

1. Catch fly

2. Get some pins

3. Turn some neurons on and off!

 

EDIT:

 

Here's some info on connectomics:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome

http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=connectomics

 

 

Searches:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Gero+Miesenbork

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Tim+Behrens

[Cyclone]

So how do you decide on an item out of a set of items?

 

I don't think we have the capability to introspectively say how we decide on something from within a set. I'm pretty sure that it's nothing to do with binary trees though.

[pattricia]

This thread has been interesting to read.

[danot]

This thread has been interesting to read.

Would you say that if you weren't you?

[pattricia]

Would you say that if you weren't you?

 

No, I dont think I would.

[espadrille]

This thread has been interesting to read.

 

You really have to have your wits about you on this one!

 

and no I wouldn't have said that if I wasn't me.

[harvey19]

You really have to have your wits about you on this one!

 

and no I wouldn't have said that if I wasn't me.

 

After contributing and reading the thread will it have changed

Why Are You You from today ?

Are you different to You before the thread ?