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LinkedInThis is an intriguing one to contemplate: scientists have apparently discovered that human adults do grow new brain neuron-cells: Weird: Nuclear Bomb Tests Reveal Adults Grow New Brain Cells … [Read more...]
PLAYING DARPA: “THE EMERGENT CONNECTOME”
October 4, 2012 By
This one was brought to my attention by a friend, Ms. P.H., who sent it to me in an email, and it suggests all sorts of things, some good, some bad: The Emergent Connectome The Blue Brain Project accurately predicts connections between neurons. Now, before we get to the one specific statement in this article that still leaves me breathless, let me lay some of my philosophical cards on the table, and make a few comments about the general Gestalt of this article and its implications. First, the philosophical cards: I am not a materialist, nor, for that matter, am I a 'non-materialist', in … [Read more...]
OF COMPUTER CHIPS AND NEURONS
April 1, 2011 By
Well, while you're still pondering the implications of Oak Ridge's new supercomputer, ponder this as well: Mixing Computer Circuits and Neurons This dovetails remarkably well with yesterday's blog about quantum computing and consciousness, for there is a school of thought out there currently among physicists and neurophysiologists that suggests that the structure of the neuron, so much more subtle and sophisticated than the binary logic gates of contemporary computers, is the key to why human minds are still much more efficient and subtle "difference engines" (to borrow Babbage's phrase … [Read more...]