[MURG] Neuropeptide Function?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:10:04AM -0500, Yan King Yin wrote:

> Statistical methods can do the trick.

Not really, because corellation goes haywire if causality is very delayed.
A lot of stuff happens, which was caused by preceding events?

Moreover, you assume the box will leak complete info over operation time.
This is wildly optimistic for less than geologic time scales. You can be 
sure you nail all emergent effects if you work up from lowest level of 
theory there is. You can fall up several abstraction layers by pure machine
learning that way, until you arrive at optimal representation for given
hardware (you have to co-evolve both for optimal result, actually).

To obtain a compact representation you need a full model to know what to
abstract.

Statistics is very good for brain/machine I/O and removing vitrification/scan
artifacts, though.

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