Re: Mechanisms for learning
[{"sender": "Jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>", "recipients": ["Joscha Bach"], "timestamp": "Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:42 AM", "subject": "Re: Mechanisms for learning", "body": "thank you for your support and encouragement, even where I fail.\nSorry for being such an embarrassment today. I will spell out today's argument a bit better and cohesive when I get to it. Also, I should have recognized that the main point I tried to make would trigger Noam (who was as always very generous, patient, kind and humble on the personal level, even though he did not feel like conceding anything on the conceptual one)."}, {"sender": "Joscha Bach", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:02 AM", "subject": "Re: Mechanisms for learning", "body": "Some thoughts I meant to send back for a long time:"}, {"sender": "Jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 4:41 AM", "subject": "Re: Mechanisms for learning", "body": "no worry, if i understand correctly you are suggsting there are layers 1 through N . lets cal them L 1 -\nLn. there are times T 1- Tn / and then conjecture that changing the time . correlations ( by genetic swtch\nor other method. , you might be able to make blacks smarter by changing the time for motor layer\ndevelopment and changing the time for other layers. . ). like telemeres for the cell , are their equivalents for\nthe layers. . as you talked about culling the unused neurons in each layer, each neuron in each layer would\nget dfferent ( kill yourself if you are not being used instructions ).\nand CONCEPTS could be layer to layer communicaiton. . are gender differences also a matter of time,\nand structure of interactions. .\ni my self believe that african music, westrn music , chinese music are a window into the the structure of\nthose layers. . western rigid, african primitve , chinese nature based, . I belive that synphoic movments\nbest describe your layering, they open with a basic simple melody„ after it is learned, it is repeated and\"\ndeveloped\" , inverted, distorted, related, etc. the development stage take a long time. then there is a\nrecapitlaltion of the whole. and its inter and intra actions. . african musci has lots of beats. and little\ndevelopment. - no accident, it mirrors their learning process.\nre taboo\n, maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation. . the earths forest fire. potentailly\na good thing for the species\ntoo many people, so many mass executions of the elderly and infirm make sense\nis the fundamental fact that everyone dies at some time .make it imporrisbole to ask so why not earilier. if\nthe brain discards unused neurons, why shold socieity keep their equivalent"}, {"sender": "Joscha Bach", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 6:02 PM", "subject": "Re: Mechanisms for learning", "body": "Cells seem to be mostly indistinguishable (except for XX), I thought?\nSize is different on average, but males with small brains are still male.\nVariation of all traits is higher for males, so there are more high IQ men (wider bell-curve). Given average\nbrain size difference, the small difference in average IQ is surprising, I think\ngender differenece. unlikely motivational, every cell is different. size is didfferent. .\nthe more radical idea is that brains are the nucleus of the human\" cell: the body the membrane, the\norganizm the colletcions and interactions of brains, wisdom of crowds . mirroring. etc. . money used\nas signals. as is spoken language. . what does social behavior mean, it is the cooridination of indiv\nbrains. =\nI think that mathematics based thinking does not allow for censorship. money people concepts if they are\nall math , then poliiical correctness and their structures are only subsets of a larger group of thoughts. its\nnot emotinal for me.\nmost people have censorship built in at a deep level, social reasoning gets to different results than equivalent\nabstract reasoning"}, {"sender": "Jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>", "recipients": ["Joscha Bach"], "timestamp": "7/23/2016 10:20:08 PM", "subject": "Re: Mechanisms for learning", "body": "the average is the only thing that matters"}]