you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.
@scottastevenson Your experience is a simulation, a virtual reality projected into a virtual observer. The observer is a model of what it would be like if you existed, were uploaded into a monkey and deeply invested in its affairs. The model is used to drive a monkey in the physical universe.
Biological neuron compared to the artificial neuron used in neural networks.
- The top shows a biologic neuron: dendrites receive signals, the cell body processes them, the axon transmits the signal, and terminals pass it onward.
- The bottom shows an artificial neuron: inputs x₁ to xₙ are weighted by w₁ to wₙ, summed with bias B, then passed through activation function f to produce output. This model is the basis for artificial neural networks.
It drives applications such as image classification in social media and voice recognition in virtual assistants.