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Interesting stuff.
I haven't read the article and am instead dwelling on what you introduced and my initial response to it. As such, my big question is 'why not both?' From my layperson's perspective I feel the computer analogy may best suit the brain hardware while the transducer may be suit the programs we chose to run. The fact this is a living, changeable system means the two aspects respond to one another creating that X factor we often can't fathom.-
Hmm, my intuition would be the other way round. Transducers seem inherently hardware-ish to me, whereas representation - the stuff of computing - is something that might or might not be done by a brain (or anything else), so is more software-ish. But yes, a system that includes both transduction and information processing seems more likely than one that's purely one thing or the other. Thanks for that.
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Amanda Foxon-Hill:
Oct 02, 2021 at 10:11 PM
Interesting stuff.
I haven't read the article and am instead dwelling on what you introduced and my initial response to it. As such, my big question is 'why not both?' From my layperson's perspective I feel the computer analogy may best suit the brain hardware while the transducer may be suit the programs we chose to run. The fact this is a living, changeable system means the two aspects respond to one another creating that X factor we often can't fathom.
rseabrook:
Oct 03, 2021 at 10:29 AM
Hmm, my intuition would be the other way round. Transducers seem inherently hardware-ish to me, whereas representation - the stuff of computing - is something that might or might not be done by a brain (or anything else), so is more software-ish. But yes, a system that includes both transduction and information processing seems more likely than one that's purely one thing or the other. Thanks for that.