Building Remote Controls for Brains
Using genetic engineering, photosensitive proteins, and light. In today’s NYTimes.
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Multiple realization of quantum computation?
A couple of weeks ago I went to this year’s TSC in Budapest. While I didn’t enjoy it as much as I did last time in Copenhagen (though Budapest, even during a heat wave, was quite enjoyable), I liked some of the talks, as in the discussion, you can hear …
Computing Mechanisms
My paper “Computing Mechanisms”, which articulates and defends an account of what it takes for physical systems to perform computations (in the sense of computability theory and computer science), has been accepted in Philosophy of Science. I will go over it and revise it one more time before sending the …
Mathematical Models of Cognitive Behaviour
For your information:Workshop Announcement – Call for ParticipationMathematical Models of Cognitive BehaviourAvon Gorge Hotel, BristolNovember 9th, 2007 (9am – 5pm)https://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/cognitive-systems-workshopWorkshop of the Pascal Network of Excellence and the euCognition NetworkProbabilistic approaches to Artificial Intelligence have becomemainstream in the past decade. Statistical methods are routinely usedin machine learning, machine translation, machine …
Philosophy Carnival #51
Here.
Are your brains BIG?
Hi,I just found out that the students of cogsci (here in Helsinki) are arguing passionately (greetings to Ilmari + guys) about this story: https://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=166So, does the size of brains matter/correlate with the IQ… This may be a complicated question, and I was just thinking what the situation with the current comparative study is right now. …
Thanks for the Feedback
A couple of weeks ago, I asked whether anyone would comment on a paper of mine on connectionist computation. Several people contacted me and later sent me very hepful comments. Many thanks to them.I’ve now used Brains to receive helpful comments on my work several times, and I know other contributors have …