Trenton Bricken

But I think you almost have to just kind of charge at certain things to get much of anything done, not be swept up in the tide of whatever the expectations are.

Yeah.

Something that a friend said to me a while back, but I think it's stuck is like, it's amazing how quickly you can become world-class at something just because most people aren't trying that hard and like are only working like, I don't know, the actual like 20 hours that they're actually spending on this thing or something.

And so, yeah, if you just go ham, then like you can, you can get really far pretty fast.

No, I think it's a sensible question.

Well, it is a question.

I don't know how you would begin to kind of be like, okay, well, this part of the brain is like a vector of this dimensionality.

I mean, maybe for the visual stream, because it's like V1 to V2 to IT, whatever, you could just count the number of neurons that are there and be like, that is the dimensionality.

But it seems more likely that there are kind of submodules and things are divided up.

So yeah, I don't have, and I'm not like the world's greatest neuroscientist, right?

Like I did it for a few years.

I like studied the cerebellum quite a bit.

So I'm sure there are people who could give you a better answer on this.

Yeah, it's hard for me to think about because at this point, I just think so much in terms of this feature space.

I mean...

at one point there was like the kind of behavioralist approach towards cognition where, or, um, it's like, you're just, you're like input output, but you're not really doing any processing.

Um, or it's like everything is embodied and you're just like a dynamical system that's like operating, um, it like along like some predictable equations, but like there's no state in the system, I guess.

Um,

But whenever I've read these sorts of critiques, it's like, well, you're just choosing to not call this thing a state.

But you could call any internal component of the model a state.