diff --git a/Hypothesis.md b/Hypothesis.md index 98aab9093..03a1b983b 100644 --- a/Hypothesis.md +++ b/Hypothesis.md @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ - Hypothesis: what you see with your eyes closed, the lights you can see in the dark -- that is not random noise, it is computation. - The visual cortex may be used to compute arbitrary programs given the passage of time: an image can encode a spectrogram, for example, and pattern recognition applied to shapes in the spectrogram may yield at least some useful sound information (given the "right" neural networks) + - Arbitrary programs could be stored and replayed in the visual cortex by e.g. evolving cellular automata or a neural network that can simulate them, which would mean universal computation as per Wolfram et al