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A Conversation Between Terry Sejnowski & Stephen Wolfram (February 14, 2023) [Part 1]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is There a Redundancy in the Brain?

I'm not sure he ever figured out. I don't think he really did. He had a whole analysis of probabilistic logics and so on because he was convinced that, you know, sort of error rates were a critical feature of brains versus computers. But I don't Think he ever worked on neural nets. And that's the point. It was called graceful degradation. The brain has to keep track of evidence and it comes in from different sensory systems,. You know, vision, audition and so forth and has to be combined with Probability-based reasoning.

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