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Process how does out brain do it?

Well, by your spelling, I'm going to have to assume you're not sober, and you're requesting how your brain performs a process under inebriated conditions. Am I correct? 🙂

At any rate, asking how your brain performs a process is far too general.
 
I'm currently developing a simulation of the CNS (central nervous system), and from what I've seen so far, I can only say that although neurons themselves are relatively simple cells, a collection of about 100 billion neurons (the Human brain), with around 100 trillion connections between them, is enough to make any person feel desperate when asked to explain the working of it.

No one can explain the working of the brain yet, but through research like that of my own, one day we will.
 


<< How large is your nueral net so far?

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I haven't yet began any simulations. Right now I'm still doing some research and am designing the program. I've already began some programming, but it'll take a couple of months before I can start the simulations.

One nice thing of neuroscience and biochemistry is that the tiniest events in a neuron can have the largest consequences. You might have seen my post in OT regarding an article in Cell. Well, that article is about an experiment which describes certain events in neurons, related to learning and remembering. I'll have to implement the data from that experiment into my model before I'll be able to start any simulations.

That, and the fact that I'm still designing my personal 'super'-computer (the cluster) 😉 which will be used for the simulations.
 
By the way, the first neural net I'll be using will contain about 100,000 neurons (Drosophila has 250,000 neurons), with about 5,000 connections per neuron.

Some early estimates show that this will take about 300 MB of memory. The required processing power is as of yet still unknown.
 


<< How does our brian preform a process. >>



I dont know about brian's processes but I can sure tell you a lot about Tom's processes 🙂

Anyway, if you do figure it out, tell me and I'll get you to sign a non-disclosure agreement before killing you 🙂

Elledan: Is your neural network just going to be a bog standard network or are you integrating some other stuff into it as well such as GA's and fuzzy firing rates.

What I would really like to see would be a neural network comprised of agents instead of neurons and see how emergent behaviour arises out of that, would take a LOT of processing power though 🙁
 


<< Elledan: Is your neural network just going to be a bog standard network or are you integrating some other stuff into it as well such as GA's and fuzzy firing rates. >>

It's a closely simulated version of a biological neural network.



<< What I would really like to see would be a neural network comprised of agents instead of neurons and see how emergent behaviour arises out of that, would take a LOT of processing power though 🙁 >>

Bwah... who cares if it goes a bit slow 😛

It wouldn't be too hard to do, though.
 
I am trying to design something as well. I am trying just the opposite as you though. I am making coherent modules that I think will help the computer reach the level it needs to, rather than trying to emulate what works for us. I think your approach is more realistic and mine is probably more of a game. Mine may well learn to "act" alot like we do, but it will never be truly sentient.

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<< I am trying to design something as well. I am trying just the opposite as you though. I am making coherent modules that I think will help the computer reach the level it needs to, rather than trying to emulate what works for us. I think your approach is more realistic and mine is probably more of a game. Mine may well learn to "act" alot like we do, but it will never be truly sentient.

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Yeah, that's what I realized as well when I looked at current research regarding AI and neural nets.

However, I intend to use this research I'm working on to find out how stuff is done, so that I won't have to simulate billions of neurons just to create a neural net similar to ours.
 
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