The experimental results from neurobiology have lead to the investigation of a third generation of neural network models which …
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Category: Philosophy/Ethics
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.
Do Neurons Count?
Neural computers do not execute typical machine instructions of digital computers unless they are made to emulate the behavior of physical neural networks
Fire All Neurons!
Mechanical analog computers had their origins in Naval Gunnery in World War I […] mechanical analog computers remained of considerable military importance certainly until well into the 1960s and have only been superseded by digital computing systems in the 1970s.
As the World Seems
We have heretofore confused the notion of the power with which the soul acts on the body with the power with which one body acts on another
Write What you don’t Know
The task of a science of consciousness […] is to systematically integrate two key classes of data into a scientific framework: third-person data, or data about behavior and brain processes, and first-person data, or data about subjective experience
Barking up the Evolutionary Tree
Throughout nature almost every part of each living being has probably served, in a slightly modified condition, for diverse purposes, and has acted in the living machinery of many ancient and distinct specific forms.
ExcreMental
Thought is an adaptive brain-activity …
Mind the Brain
Our first step in understanding the mind, is to understand neurons …
The Mental Life of Brains
Brains are alive, part of a living organism. Biology can tell us a great deal about how brains work qua living tissue.. But what can biology tell us is about what’s it like to be a brain, to have a brain, to feel, think, and want with a brain?
Brainpatch
The brain is susceptible to many operations, which may, in various cases, preserve the life of the patients… Wounds of this organ… are almost as easily cured, as those of most of the other
Oubliette
The advantage of a bad memory is that, several times over, one enjoys the same good things for the first time.
Brainless Myths
What I have just said of the network, on its structure and, above all, on the fact that all the parts of the central nervous system make up a part of it, proves the anatomical and functional continuity between nerve cells.
Little Big Brain
The cerebellum contains 80% of the brain’s neurons but constitutes only 10% of brain mass …
(Brain Behav Evol. 2018; 91(3): 158–169)