the neural spike discretion is important, but i immediately thought about how much information also gets encoded in the space of neural spike frequency… and how it’s perhaps a bit strange, that bio spent all this effort getting discrete encoding only to then immediately turn around and generate a new continuous function
One thing I had in an earlier draft of this shortform: the concept of “brain waves” makes me suspect that the timings of neural spikes are also best understood as discrete. But I don’t know enough about how brain waves actually work (or what they even are) to say anything substantive here.
have been thinking about this since i saw it
the neural spike discretion is important, but i immediately thought about how much information also gets encoded in the space of neural spike frequency… and how it’s perhaps a bit strange, that bio spent all this effort getting discrete encoding only to then immediately turn around and generate a new continuous function
One thing I had in an earlier draft of this shortform: the concept of “brain waves” makes me suspect that the timings of neural spikes are also best understood as discrete. But I don’t know enough about how brain waves actually work (or what they even are) to say anything substantive here.