ICT Theory of Mind Workshop
A workshop on theory of mind just took place at USC. The program webpage contains some links to recent work on the subject, including a review article on mirror neurons (published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience).
Two-State, Three-Symbol Turing Machine is Universal
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.
Sleeping News
There are four articles about sleeping (1, 2, 3, 4) in today’s NY Times.
iGod
A student of mine found a bot that thinks it’s God. You can chat with it here. The conversation can be pretty funny at times.
Microsoft doesn’t rely on introspection
Here’s an interesting patent application from Microsoft. Apparently, they distrust introspective methods as advanced by Simon and Ericsson, and want to use EEG (filtered using the patented artifacts filtering method) to directly assess user interfaces.Seems like the work on neural correlates of consciousness turns out to be commercialized as well. …
Memory and Language Workshop (II)
In addition to Corey’s helpful post, here is some information on the workshop sent to me by Sarah Robins of Washington University in St. Louis:The Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University inSt. Louis has compiled a set of online annotated bibliographies on theinterdisciplinary study of memory and language. The resource can …
Memory and Language Workshop
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.