Frans, your replies are irritatingly repetetive and you are simply not
answering the questions put to you. I don't care about why you think
your project is worthwhile, or your interpretation of the evolutionary
history of man (even though these are debatable) what I want to know
is what you are actually going to do. Is all very fine saying you've
written a 600-page tome pretentiously titled 'Biography of Man', but
I've read some of it and all you do is talk about the possible
evolution of higher-level cognitive function. If you are planning to
model these then fine, but then you confuse the issue by talking about
modeling neural networks. You are confusing levels all over the
place. You have no hope of accurately modeling how the development of
neural circuits leads to cognitive function becuase you (and everyone
else) has no where near enough data on how neurons work (its not even
certain that it is electrical activity of neurones that correlates
with cogniton - it could just as likely be protein interactions etc.)
Please answer, directly, some basic questions:
Are the evolutionary analyses you talk about yours or someone elses
work which has been published? Is it actually experimental analysis
of animal tissue, or just supposed evolution based on what you think
'must' have happened?
Secondly, your criteria for 'correctness':
>'Are the characteristics of the model reasonably isomorph with the
>functionality of the
> 'real thing', i.e. Homo?'
this is just totally false. Apart from the fact that you have no way
of accurately testing more complex aspects of cognitive function the
test you propose is simply a Turing test. However, Turing tests are
in no way a measure of the correctness of the 'inner workings' of a
machine compared to the way the brain works. Output may be the same
for any given input, but the processor could be entirely different.
Given that what you want to do is understand the brain, this test is
hopeless. Address this point.
How are you going to model? Are you writing a computer-program
environment or what? What input are you giving to the model? What
will its envrionment be? It seems to me you talk/write a lot but say
very little.