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by kragen 200 days ago
I'd be surprised.
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Yeah thanks, me too. So I'm wondering what point 22 is getting at. How could that even be possible?
Biology can use discrete methods; we have discrete neurons (and other cells), discrete chemical species like ATP, discrete amino acids, discrete genes made of discrete nucleotides, etc.
Fur sure. But I don't get how that leads to an expectation that our biology is computing and utilizing derivatives in a computational graph.

Point 22 seems to imply that the other finds it notable that that isn't happening.

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