{"id":118772,"date":"2021-01-22T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/your-cortex-contains-17-billion-computers"},"modified":"2021-01-22T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T22:23:10","slug":"your-cortex-contains-17-billion-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/your-cortex-contains-17-billion-computers","title":{"rendered":"Your Cortex Contains 17 Billion Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-cortex-contains-17-billion-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neural networks of neural networks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Brains receive input from the outside world, their neurons do something<strong class=\"\"> <\/strong>to that input, and create an output. That output may be a thought (I want curry for dinner); it may be an action (make curry); it may be a change in mood (yay curry!). Whatever the output, that \u201csomething\u201d is a transformation of some form of input (a menu) to output (\u201cchicken dansak, please\u201d). And if we think of a brain as a device that transforms inputs to outputs then, inexorably, the computer becomes our analogy of choice.<\/p>\n<p>For some this analogy is merely a useful rhetorical device; for others it is a serious idea. But the brain isn\u2019t a computer. Each neuron is a computer. Your cortex contains 17 billion computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neural networks of neural networks. Brains receive input from the outside world, their neurons do something to that input, and create an output. That output may be a thought (I want curry for dinner); it may be an action (make curry); it may be a change in mood (yay curry!). Whatever the output, that \u201csomething\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}