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CYBERNETIC BRAIN. “Namely, we study a network in which the synaptic connections among the pairs of neurons are energetically negative and also proportional to the products of their energy thresholds.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

EXTREME ANALOGY. “However, in our construction we shall not simply copy the quantum field model, but rather arrive to the desired neural network by a bottom‐up approach. For this purpose we design a neural network in which the synaptic connections are closer cousins to the gravitational interaction as compared to the ones studied in [1].” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

GEOMETRY AND NEURONS. “Such mapping provides a way in which the sense of locality and geometry can be brought into something intrinsically non‐local, such as the neural network.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

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MEGASCALE THOUGHT MACHINES. “These machines, referred to as Matrioshka Brains, consume the entire power output of stars (~10(26) W), consume all of the useful construction material of a solar system (~10(26) kg), have thought capacities limited by the physics of the universe and are essentially immortal.” https://lnkd.in/gxfU_Yr View in LinkedIn

LEXICON DEVELOPS. “Since on the quantum field theory side the analogous number operators describe the occupation numbers of respective momentum modes, the excitation level of a neuron is translated as the occupation number of a particle mode.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

FIRST HOOK. “On the other hand, in a neural network the elementary degrees of freedom are the excitations of neurons.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

POINTS IN TIME. “Those who have succumbed to the seductive allure of the archetype of ‘eternal recurrence’—for example, in our own time: Nietzsche and T.S. Eliot—would want to model points in time by the points on a circle, rather than the real line. In a quantum theory, the scales of time or length are related to the inverse of energy via Planck’s constant.” https://lnkd.in/dMm_YkR View in LinkedIn

STARTING AT THE BEGINNING. “In quantum field framework the elementary degrees of freedom are the quantum oscillators describing the different momentum (and spin/helicity) modes of the field.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/prop.201800007?casa_token=GdPRXs_tGLEAAAAA%3Ag-pxPMtkcleTYDUNK3mYGfpEzKRyc2LqQknTgFFB7dkYFDL8rDe2s0f4_0Q0oKjXD4_AEgFPGWolVTQ View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT TIME. “The idea of the emergence of time is, roughly speaking, that the concept of time as a continuum ordering of events is only an approximation, valid for sufficiently large scales of time and length (and, correspondingly, sufficiently low energies), to what is expected to be a quite different concept in the, as yet, unknown full quantum theory of gravity.” https://lnkd.in/dMm_YkR View in LinkedIn