tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837874411354128903.post1816525090163217020..comments2013-04-12T15:17:16.151-07:00Comments on Cogitata Cogitanda: Thinking Thoughts: A Meta-Brain StormSean Erethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17962738330563054899noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837874411354128903.post-73814992477059261062010-03-19T01:40:03.460-07:002010-03-19T01:40:03.460-07:00Pre-script: I really hate typos and the fact that ...Pre-script: I really hate typos and the fact that I can't edit comments.<br /><br />Well, a neuron is definitely not conscious. They're really just simple threshold switches. Neurotransmitters build up on the dendrites of a neuron and when a certain threshold is reached, an electrical pulse shoots down the axon where the neuron releases its own set of neurotransmitters to another cell. So, they're no more conscious than a switch, but the connection between billions of them do create consciousness.<br /><br />However, you're more or less right. A lot of human behaviour can be looked at as a threshold switch. I actually had a similar idea that Twitter (as a whole) may "thinking" in a sense. Depending on how many followers a person has and the strength of what they tweet, a certain tweet may be retweeted by the followers. And those person's followers may, in turn, retweet that. I would look at the flow of people's tweets and then build an artificial neural network based on that data and see what it calculates.Turing E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15839958971515908863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837874411354128903.post-25838772566350078942010-03-19T00:27:50.713-07:002010-03-19T00:27:50.713-07:00Thanks for the nod, Sean. I agree about Venessa&#...Thanks for the nod, Sean. I agree about Venessa's post; she's very modest in the way she approaches it, but I think she has an innate understanding of social networking. She's one to watch in the coming years.Stace Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519300868872257574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837874411354128903.post-29867375190902130772010-03-18T23:42:58.329-07:002010-03-18T23:42:58.329-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Turing E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15839958971515908863noreply@blogger.com