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.
The Network is the Message
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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.
The Brain is as the Brain does
In the development of information technology there now seems to exist a new phase whereby the aim is to replicate many of these “neural” functions artificially
Counting on the Brain
Despite the evolution of the nervous system, it is not accompanied by a manual explaining the principles of operation …
Coppélia 2.0
He clasped the beautiful Olympia, and with her flew through the dance…
He thought that his dancing was usually correct as to time, but the peculiarly steady rhythm with which Olympia moved, and which often put him completely out, soon showed him that his time was most defective
Handy Robots
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? …
In Our Image
Developers did not want its appearance to be over-human, as this would “encourage false expectations with regard to its capabilities” for users…
Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto
Imagine a craftsman being awakened suddenly in the dead of night. He searches downstairs for something among a crowd of mannequins in his workshop. If the mannequins started to move, it would be like a horror story…
Mind over Matter
Who you are is nothing but a pack of neurons…
your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules…
I’m in my Head, Thinking my Thoughts
By ratiocination, I mean computation. […] all ratiocination is comprehended in these two operations of the mind, addition and substraction.
Mental Brains
Hemispherectomy… surgeons have performed this operation hundreds of times for disorders uncontrollable in any other way
My Brain is Me
“There are two things about the human soul on which all the knowledge we can have of its nature depends: one of which is that it thinks, and the other is that, being united to the body, it can act on and be acted upon by it” – Descartes to Elisabeth, 21 May 1643
Things that Think
What do we mean by “thinking”? What are the technical requirements on the machine? Does it need to process information in the same way that humans do? Massively parallel, biochemically, etc. like a human brain?
Natural Born Robots
Rodney Brooks (MIT) introduces Nouvell AI, also called fundamentalist AI. He compares and contrasts his Nouvell AI with the then-mainstream…