Do we need neuroscience for AGI? X debate says McCulloch-Pitts already covered the basics
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-06
A debate sparked by Stanislav Fort's claim that we barely understand how the brain implements its learning algorithm. Counterpoint from teortaxesTex: we don't need to reproduce the brain anyway — the relevant bits (connectionism, memory, error propagation) were largely figured out with the McCulloch-Pitts model.
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