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I agree. Neuroscience isn't my specialty, but I don't remember hearing about research showing that the brain does not use feedback...

Overall though, I think there is a lot of truth to his message.




Think about it; biological neurons most definitely don't use backprop. Physical neurons can't backprop linearly if they forward prop nonlinearly. I think Hinton pointed this out, though almost all ANN researchers agree.

Hebbian learning .... maybe. I never thought too much about contrastive divergence.

It doesn't really matter; brains most certainly don't work like ANNs, except maybe in some weird mean field sense for a few things like liquid state machines. It would be a huge coincidence if LeCun or Hinton or whoever magically wrote down the brain equation....




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