I haven't boosted the #BrainInspired podcast for far too long, but you can't miss this wonderful episode with the one and only @jaanaru.
They talk about consciousness, why current #AI does not have it (not even near), how insight is generated, and why academic research currently produces so little of it...
I just felt myself nodding along for the whole two hours...
Check it out!
Proud to have managed to finish a #neuromorphic manuscript, with Chiara De Luca, Mirco Tincani and Elisa Donati just before the end of the year!
It demonstrates the benefits of using #braininspired principles of computation for achieving robust computation across multiple time-scales, despite the inherent variability of the underlying computational substrate (silicon neurons that emulate faithfully biological ones):
A neuromorphic multi-scale approach for heart rate and state detection
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5737326/v1
#neuromorphic #wearable #neuroai #SpikingNeuralNetwork
With the advent of novel sensor and machine learning technologies, it is becoming possible to develop wearable systems that perform continuous recording and processing of biosignals for health or body state assessment. For example, modern smartwatches can already track physiological functions, in...
I just listend to the #BrainInspired podcast with Andrea Martin. @andrea https://braininspired.co/podcast/169/
It was a tour de force on a variety of #linguistics and #nlp/ #LLMs topics. Wow.
@NicoleCRust @debivort @MolemanPeter @knutson_brain @kordinglab @dsmith @tdverstynen Right, so contextual constraints as causes just goes one important step further. The emergent properties that are hard to predict also meaningfully constrain the relationships/interactions between the individual components. Neurons are constrained by their neighbors, which are constrained by other brain areas, which are constrained by the brain as a whole, which are constrained by other people's brains, etc. These are all top-down constraints that can cause the "lower" components to behave in ways that would not be possible otherwise and would lack meaning without relation to the whole. If you define cause as efficient cause only, that's OK, and these can be labeled constraints. But I view them as equally causal.
And I'd formally model this myself but I know my limits ;)
I encourage you to check out Juarrero's book, even first 30 pages or so makes the point clear. Or listen to her on #braininspired for a summary.
This latest episode of the #BrainInspired podcast, where Paul Middlebrooks interviews @WiringtheBrain is finger-licking good!
https://braininspired.co/podcast/175
I'm reading "Free Agents" right now, and it's amazingly well written, accessible, and gets right to the point.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226231/free-agents
Agency is real, not doubt about it, and it's not even that mysterious.
Another #BrainInspired Cool Episode conversing @WiringtheBrain new book:
» what I’ve done in the book is sketch what I think is just really a framework for thinking about those things
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that an organism could have causal power in and of itself and could could have control and could exercise choice.
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even after having written this book, this question of choice is the one that still just niggles at me and «
https://braininspired.co/podcast/175/
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