IRON HEART WAYWT - 2023 EDITION
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@Brandrea Thanks!
And congrats to your daughter on being accepted to do neuroscience. I find that stuff fascinating (from a layman's level). I was listening to a podcast the other day about how we perceive reality and apparently there are 10 times as many neurones feeding back to the visual cortex from the frontal lobes. This neuroscientist was explaining how they now think that the brain perceives our surroundings based on Bayesian inference done by the frontal lobes, rather than by directly perceiving reality.
The example he gave was if you were walking down the street on a foggy day and a lion started to come out of the gloom, you would initially perceive a dog instead. Your visual cortex would receive the sense-data of 'lion' but - assuming you had never seen a lion wandering down the sidewalk in a residential area before - the frontal lobes would most likely respond "no, there are no lions in our neighbourhood, it must be a dog" and until the point at which the lion became clear enough to override your Bayesian priors vis-a-vis the statistical unlikelihood of a lion being on your street, your conscious mind would literally perceive a dog.
Anyway, I found it interesting to think about...
Take the dive...
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@goosehd I just hope that in my recollection I didn't butcher what the guy was saying, or else I'll look even more stupid than I already do.
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@goosehd But I am ever mindful of the fact that (by definition) half of everyone is below average intelligence, while ~70% (iirc) of people believe that they are not in that half.
Whatever the true %, I think it's generally good advice to think that everyone else in the room is smarter than you. I might learn something that way.
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@EdH said in IRON HEART WAYWT - 2023 EDITION:
@Brandrea Thanks!
And congrats to your daughter on being accepted to do neuroscience. I find that stuff fascinating (from a layman's level). I was listening to a podcast the other day about how we perceive reality and apparently there are 10 times as many neurones feeding back to the visual cortex from the frontal lobes. This neuroscientist was explaining how they now think that the brain perceives our surroundings based on Bayesian inference done by the frontal lobes, rather than by directly perceiving reality.
The example he gave was if you were walking down the street on a foggy day and a lion started to come out of the gloom, you would initially perceive a dog instead. Your visual cortex would receive the sense-data of 'lion' but - assuming you had never seen a lion wandering down the sidewalk in a residential area before - the frontal lobes would most likely respond "no, there are no lions in our neighbourhood, it must be a dog" and until the point at which the lion became clear enough to override your Bayesian priors vis-a-vis the statistical unlikelihood of a lion being on your street, your conscious mind would literally perceive a dog.
Anyway, I found it interesting to think about...
Up until you gave the example, you lost me and it would’ve been a conversation better had with my daughter lol
Thank you, we are tremendously proud parents !
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@Twistlock said in IRON HEART WAYWT - 2023 EDITION:
And congrats to the acceptance of your daughter @Brandrea. I can relate to the feelings of letting go, my daughter moved to Sweden two years ago for University. On the flipside it is so cool to see her doing her thing and maturing. Makes you proud as parents.
Couldn’t have said it any better.
I trust your daughter is doing well and thriving at University
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Congrats man. My girls are 9 and 11 and the car is packed, ready to go. College, army, married at the 18 to loser boyfriends/girlfriends… it matters not. As long as they live elsewhere.
@EdH this happened to me during an earthquake in Maryland. It took me a few minutes to realize what was going on. I was real confused.
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@goosehd not until now! I guess you’ll be found out if you try to cut corners.
I don’t really have much to do with AI in my working life (or outside it) but I have been following some of the debates in recent years about whether an AI can be named as an inventor (and then transfer their rights in an invention to their “employer”) - see https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/07/artificial-intelligence-is-not-breaking.html?m=1, for example.
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@goosehd Thanks for this!
