The Brain is as the Brain does

Hi Sam, I wanted to thank you for helping us out with our article!😊

My pleasure, I enjoyed working with Julia and you 😄                        

Can I ask you another favor though?

Sure, happy to oblige 😊                                                                          

For our next issue we’re thinking of looking at Neuromorphic Engineering

Very interesting, yes! 😊                                                                           

There’s a lot of technical problems with the classical approach, so we thought about presenting some alternatives

Of course, but neuromorphic computing can mean a lot of different things

Yes, that’s why we need your help! I know it is not simply “doing things like the brain”

Indeed, in a very literal sense we still can’t do that                              

But Julia’s historical approach did convince me that we are getting closer and closer, right?

I would agree, yes, but we’re still a long way off                                   

OK, fair enough, but would you willing to collaborate on an article discussing the various approaches?

Certainly! Do you plan on going as far back as the 19th century like Julia did?

Not this time, thought I found it quite interesting what she uncovered

So mostly 20th century stuff?                                                                   

Yeah, we wanted to look at the parallel developments from the 1950s onwards

Side by side with the “official” history of AI? Interesting! I like it already

Yes, that was the plan, good to heave you on board!

Can I suggest Analog Computing as the first topic?