This post parses to meaning pretty fully for me, but I'm somewhat familiar with Mark's writings.
In case it helps anyone else, as I read it the key points are:
hypothesis: the mind is highly neuroplastic in the long term, capable of arbitrarily "large" error corrections. Also there are momentary moves it can do to encode more than one piece of information in the same bit of network. Inference: while maybe arbitrary neuroplasticity and error correction is possible in the limit, locally this looks like doing as series of highly-constrained changes like a sliding puzzle. We probably have some particular neural mechanism handling these updates
1b) these updates look like going through changing layers of
This post parses to meaning pretty fully for me, but I'm somewhat familiar with Mark's writings.
In case it helps anyone else, as I read it the key points are:
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... (read more)hypothesis: the mind is highly neuroplastic in the long term, capable of arbitrarily "large" error corrections. Also there are momentary moves it can do to encode more than one piece of information in the same bit of network. Inference: while maybe arbitrary neuroplasticity and error correction is possible in the limit, locally this looks like doing as series of highly-constrained changes like a sliding puzzle. We probably have some particular neural mechanism handling these updates 1b) these updates look like going through changing layers of