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#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence

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Neurons Are Not Our Models

Neurons are not our models. They're very complicated and beautiful. But we often oversimplify them. So you can think of the brain as kind of like this like network computation where it's actually really trivial, simple computers. A neuron is not a transistor. It has synapses,. Even synapses are not transistors, but they are lower on the information processing hierarchy in a sense. They can do a bulk of the computation, but neurons are entire processors in and of themselves.

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