Too Much Binding Is Harmful

DUDE HOW I DIDNT SEE THIS BEFORE. HOLY SHIT.

SO, NODES THAT FIRE TOGETHER WIRE TOGETHER RIGHT? COOL. SO THIS CREATES A TEMPORAL MYOPIA, WHERE CONNECTED NODES MAY OPTIMIZE FOR FREQUENT COACTIVATION WHICH MIGHT BE HARMFUL FOR THE BROADER NETWORK. OK. https://x.com/farawaylaughtr/status/1928239199754260758

This is a very important idea, it’s a kind of collapse that happens in systems that become “too close”, that lose their individuality. This applies to neurons in a network, but also individual humans in a society, companies in an industry, or cultures in a civilization¹.

Footnotes

1. The fact that it seems to apply at all scales like this makes it a candidate for a “universal pattern of reality” ↩