This is inspired by a discussion I had over on Evolving Thoughts. Perhaps one way to approach part of Fodor’s argument against natural selection is to focus on the lack of a “free-rider” type problem in other areas of science. I’m curious what others think of this. So, define a …
On the heels of the Blue Brain project, here’s another effort to simulate neural systems on a very large scale, with the provocative title “Cognitive Computing via Synaptronics and Supercomputing.” This link is to the PI’s blog: www.modha.org From DARPA’s announcement: “The end goal: ubiquitously deployed computers imbued with a …
I’ve been asked to assist in distributing this CFP: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** “Mind, Brain, and Experience:At the Intersections of Philosophy, Science, and Medicine” April 10-11, 2008Denver, Colorado hosted by University of Colorado Denver Department of Philosophywith support fromUniversity of Colorado President’s Fund for the HumanitiesandUniversity of Colorado Center …
Wolfram’s contest for proving (or disproving) whether a particular 2-state, 3-symbol (or color) Turing Machine has been won by a 20-year old engineering student from the UK. Link to write-up in Nature here.
The website for the recent “Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” workshop has been published, and it includes a nice annotated bibilography (under “Resources”) that may be of some interest to Brains readers. Here’s the link.
It’s not often that one spots a bit of philosophy in the wild: https://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004932.html
