I’m pretty sure the field of neuroscience is focused on understanding how the brain works.
Have we made any fundamental progress in understanding how the human brain works in the last 20 years? 50?
Issue there is the ability to trace out the brain networks accurately. We're getting closer. Once we're in the ~0.5 micron scanning range, things will get VERY interesting.
I believe we've already mapped some invertebrate brain, maybe 250 neurons.
We've made pretty good progress. But the same problem that plagues explainabilty of ANN's rears its ugly head in neuroscience.
Low level descriptions provide shockingly little insight into high level behavior.
Yes, but also your original question was about how much people care, so questioning the amount of progress is at best a weird tangent.
I am genuinely curious. It doesn't seem like we have made the slightest progress in truly explaining how the human brain works or why we are sentient and self-aware.
Depends about on what you mean here. The good scientist mostly give up when trying to 'describe' higher level function (at best maybe generate some analytical expression which may correlate with IQ or something) and focus instead on biochemistry at the single neuron level. That's a very different science than trying to 'explain AI'.
The only ingesting things now are the machines, that’s where all the money goes now.
We’re just “meat bags”.
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? This is below the quality line for an interesting HN thread.
Sorry Dang, but that’s just how a lot of people see it.
Ok, but that doesn't make for a substantive comment, and we're trying for substantive comments here.