Brain Broadcasting Corporation

(cross posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I have previously argued that synchronous neural activity is a candidate for a theoretical account of  what a brain state is.  Here is an Interesting article reviewing a new paper that suggests an interesting role for neural synchrony. I would be interested to hear what others thought about the idea …

Did McCulloch and Pitts 1943 Offer a Theory of Cognition in terms of Digital Computation?

Yes! Some people don’t realize this.  Someone recently objected to me that since McCulloch and Pitts were studying the brain, they must be offering only a theory of neural activity, on the same level as, say, Hodgkin and Huxley.  How can I say that McCulloch and Pitts had a theory of cognition? Although …

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