videos of my skating with poles (was Poles / No-poles Skating experiment)
I meant to ask, Ken, but forgot: my assumption was that the main supercomputer
in your mysterious post about Aalsgard a few weeks ago was his cerebellum, and the four auxiliary computers were aspects of his nervous system located in his four limbs?? Have you read Penrose's (the mathematician/physicist) books "The Emperor's New Mind" and "Shadows of the Mind"? Best, Peter |
videos of my skating with poles (was Poles / No-poles Skating experiment)
Yes, the amazing supercomputer in my "Norwegian Future Skate project" post
was the cerebellum of Thomas Alsgaard. And the auxiliary super-computers to drive it would include like the visual 2D processing sequence into quasi-3D and recognition, and that distorted "somatic homunculus" in the brain that maps to the nerve sensors in the skin and places. And also various centers forward around the cerebrum, where some of the actions of the cerebellum are interpreted into concepts (often mistakenly) -- and sometimes we try to introduce new concepts from the cerebrum back to the cerebellum to execute (often differently than we hoped). My understanding from a few years back is that there's way more processing power in the cerebellum than in the cerebrum -- because the task of coordinating the physics of all those joints and sensors in full three-dimensional geometry is computationally extremely complicated. The "intelligent" capabilities of the cerebrum like logic and calculus proved much easier for "artificial intelligence" to surpass than the sensory-motor coordination of the average human 4-year-old. From what little I've heard about the _other_ Norwegian Skate Project in the 1990s, it sounded like an attempt to use the _cerebrum_ to improve skating technique. But ski skating with poles is the most complicated human propulsive motion. Trying to find the optimal coordination for a mechanical system that complex by using a computer with less processing power and little design-specialization for biomechanical physics and little access to critical input data and metrics -- is overall a bad bet. Especially when I start suspecting that some of the cerebrums involved knew less of basic physics than the average human cerebellum. Of course some of the people involved with the New Skate project must really understand the physics of reactive forces -- but I wouldn't have guessed that from anything I've seen _written_ about that skating approach. For that matter, I haven't yet found anything about indirect reactive forces in _any_ American writing about ski skating. But I'd love to find some, so please send me references. Ken P.S. I have not read Penrose beyond his introduction. He didn't seem to be addressing the questions about consciousness that I find interesting. ___________________________ Peter Hoffman wrote I meant to ask, Ken, but forgot: my assumption was that the main supercomputer in your mysterious post about Aalsgard a few weeks ago was his cerebellum, and the four auxiliary computers were aspects of his nervous system located in his four limbs?? Have you read Penrose's (the mathematician/physicist) books "The Emperor's New Mind" and "Shadows of the Mind"? |
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