Carlo Ierna writes about …
In this blog you will find also some fictional dialogues made between different virtual characters. We thought of doing this to stimulate the reader to identify with the questions or curiosity of the different characters. In fact, each character has their own personality and will interact with others in a different way. If you want to view all the virutal characters and you want more information about please visit the virtual characters page.
“Young man, you don’t think I’m encountering constructive symbolism for the first time, do you? “Unplug”: free yourself from physicality, from the vulgar earthbound physicality, from the evils of civilization, from electricity, nerves, and so on. Isn’t that what this is? The association is crystal clear, I’d be tempted to say, perhaps even too obvious” (Kishon 1987)
The experimental results from neurobiology have lead to the investigation of a third generation of neural network models which …
A continued stimulus, such as a state of tension, a light or a sound, produces a continued passage of sensory impulses to the central nervous system.
Logical laws are identical with natural laws of thought. Logic is … a physics of thought, otherwise it is nothing
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them …
Cognition is nothing but computation …
The word “Artificial” is used in one sense when it is applied, to flowers, and in another sense when it is applied to light …
You who calculate?… Why not use Brains of Steel which never tire?
Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be described that a machine can be made to simulate it …
Artificial intelligence belongs in the history of human intelligence
When the device and Leggett began to work together, a new person emerged—a de-novo identity, a symbiosis of machine and mind…
The case of the use of the abacus by Japanese school children and adults … tool’s use becomes incorporated into a culture-specific technology
The distinction between a “tool” and a prosthesis that is implanted into the body is more apparent than real. …