alt Hacker NewsI feel like the title should read: "If an Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why couldn't the brain?"
"Wouldn't" suggests that the brain is choosing not to. I'm not sure this is the case here.
I feel like the title should read: "If an Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why couldn't the brain?"
"Wouldn't" suggests that the brain is choosing not to. I'm not sure this is the case here.
“Wouldn't” is being used in the logical-conditional sense, not in the sense of willingness, requesting, nor opinion.
It's literally “What's the reason that the machinery of the brain doesn't use this mechanism, given this proof that the effect could in principle be used?”. A similar question can be made for quantum mechanical interference in the brain (which to be clear I feel is adequately answered by “the brain is a wildly inappropriate vehicle for harnessing interference effects).