[RaftPeople]

> I'm sorry, but it just still seems the same concept to me. Am I misunderstanding something? It all seems to be about having some sort of signal travelling through various pathways where there's a mechanism to reward/punish the signal which will get adapted by whichever method of storage.

When I said the picture is getting more complex it was in response to your statement that you thought astrocytes were just for cell maintenance, not computation, so I was providing some details about how those cells are involved in computation (not just cell maint).

> I can't guarantee it yet, but seeing the difference between e.g. gpt-4 and gpt-3.5 and open-source models, then there seems to be clear different in power of understanding instructions and coming up with very impressive ways to solve problems in my view.

While I think ChatGPT is very impressive, I don't think it has "understanding", otherwise it wouldn't happily explain to you how to calculate the 4th side of a triangle. A human knows that a triangle has 3 sides and questions about the 4th side is inconsistent with his/her internal model. ChatGPT just has statistical data about the relationship between words, which is why it told me how to calculate that 4th side.

> I'm not sure what you mean by 4d - is that including time, like video?

Yes, time, but not necessarily video. Time is incorporated into the patterns we detect and the internal models we build.