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>I believe the human mind is specialised to think in terms of serial solutions

The brain is massively parallel - 80 billion neurons operating asynchronously at only 100hz.

>is having a neural network the end problem that needs solving?

Absolutely! Neural networks are a general-purpose way to solve a huge number of problems, especially problems that involve raw data or the messy real world.




I'm talking about the solutions we tend to produce, not our internal workings.

You contradicted yourself in that last paragraph. I don't know what else to say to you about that.


I know I think in parallel often enough that two threads end up disagreeing with each other and a 3rd one has to sort it out. I can’t begin to describe the internal fork() sensation that happens in my noggin constantly.




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