In a recent post, I criticized some passages from Alva Noe’s book, Out of Our Heads. I’d like to clarify some details. First, it was pointed out to me that my tone was disrespectful. I am truly sorry about that. My comments were only aimed at the quoted claims, not …
European scientists are building silicon chips containing large scale artificial neural networks (200,000 neurons and 50 million synapses, scalable to a billion neurons and 10 to the 13 synapses). (Thanks to Neal Anderson for the link.) IBM scientists and working on “cognitive computing”, an attempt to build a new generation of …
Stephen Wolfram, of New Kind of Science and Mathematica fame, is scheduled to make public a new tool next May. Wolfram Alpha is supposed to answer a vast number of questions in natural language by computing the answers from a large set of algorithms and databases. Sounds impressive. (Thanks to …
new web page dedicated to the philosophy of neuroscience
Adam Arico alerted me to the following:Finally, some Cornell researchers realized John von Neumann’s dream of self-replicating automata. They are relatively simple and need some help in “feeding,” but once fed they are quite proficient. Make sure you look at the video showing how they replicate.
R. Frigg and S. Hartmann, Models in Science, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (Spring 2006 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL =https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2006/entries/models-science/>.The Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on scientific modeling is out (since February 27, 2006). The authors are among the organizers of the upcoming conference on Models and Simulations. I expect …
