>>13476267I've been giving some thought to this for the last few months.
The key, for me, was remembering that synapses almost certainly have electrical resistance; which itself creates an electrical circuit which acts like an analog differential computer.
For example, think of the brain this way...
1. A synapse is created which identifies a collection of physical stimuli as being associated.
2. The next time they are in a SIMILAR set of circumstances, a different synapse is created.
3. In the overall circuit, these two synapses now act as a parallel circuit, which lowers the overall resistance.
4. Thus, "knowledge" is simply a measure of signal strength in the parallel associations; and "judgment" is an internal measure of the probability that outcomes will occur (as measured by the relative signal strength of each potential outcome.)
5. This implies that there must be a form of almost a "biological probability density curve analyzer", but I haven't worked that out yet.
The translation... I'm beginning to think that people have it backwards. Thought is not a higher process, but a side-effect of the electrical wiring; and the changes which occur via various paths.
