... good points marius, but then we shouldn't dream as vividly as we do or be able to have lucid dreams at all. perhaps GAC should get to dream as well ;) ...
_ christophere _
becoming0@...
May 3, 2001 11:38 am
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Hey d00dz, Listen up A matter of some grave concern has come to my attention that threatens the very foundations of the AI community. In other places/at other...
Alan Grimes
alangrimes@...
May 3, 2001 11:38 am
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Are our receptors really cut off when we sleep? Sounds a bit hazardous as a survival trait. I read somewhere (New Scientist??) that the drug ketamine (that...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
May 3, 2001 3:14 pm
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I don't think there's a threat at all, except perhaps from over-hype (as in AI in the 60s/70s). <- The real danger comes from within. It comes from those that...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
May 3, 2001 3:14 pm
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om Neurons do not make intelligence. That is if you were to take a single neuron and whire it up to an aparatus, it doesn't constitute an intelligence. Infact...
Alan Grimes
alangrimes@...
May 3, 2001 4:45 pm
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... Several universities around the world are beginning to offer courses in cybernetics/AI... The most famaous of these is the university of Reading (UK), and...
Alan Grimes
alangrimes@...
May 3, 2001 4:45 pm
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... ;) ... I agree, consciousness is not easy to define when one considers dreaming or so-called "unconscious" hospitalised people, for example. In both...
Marius Myburg
mariusm@...
May 3, 2001 7:08 pm
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... Relatedly, when considering what it is and isn't to be human, it's best to take the example of a deaf, blind, mute, totally paralysed autistic with...
David
egroups@...
May 4, 2001 5:38 am
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... MIT does (I assume), and Edinburgh has been teaching AI since the 70s. Indeed, they're now offering it at undergraduate level. David...
David
egroups@...
May 4, 2001 5:38 am
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... From: "Alan Grimes" <alangrimes@...> ... <snip> ... <snip> Nicely expressed. I'd agree with the idea that neurons are a means and not the method....
Keines
keines@...
May 4, 2001 10:28 am
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May 8 — Scientists have pinpointed a key area of the brain that appears to govern personality, including one's religious, social and political beliefs, and...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
May 9, 2001 5:41 pm
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Hi, I'd like to join your group and give you folks a few pointers from my own rather extensive research in this area. First, by way of introduction, a little...
neuromorph@...
May 10, 2001 10:47 pm
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Hey, I could use all the assistance I can get in tracking down inf0z about the following: --TECH: I reciently found a connection between "Class D amplifiers"...
Alan Grimes
alangrimes@...
May 10, 2001 11:49 pm
467
Hallo I made a program (part of my degree research) witch is intended for searching an automatic dependence one real vector on another. Principle of working...
Sergius Adamtchouk
sergius@...
May 10, 2001 11:50 pm
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It's funny, I just opened my Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (soft cover edition) to a book marked page... it was honestly page 98 - the article...
Chris & Jessie McKins...
mckinst@...
May 11, 2001 12:19 am
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Hi Alan, I highly recommend "Principles of Neural Science", by Eric R. Kandel (Editor) for a good graduate level introductory text on neural science. It is a...
Barry Kumnick
neuromorph@...
May 11, 2001 1:28 am
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Thanx for that big long post. =) So some neurons implement a decision procedure for detecting certain concepts. How is such a neuron assigned to a concept? In...
Alan Grimes
alangrimes@...
May 11, 2001 3:04 am
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Hi Alan, Actually its the other way around. Concepts (actually abstractions) are assigned to neurons. The neurons have to be there first, otherwise there's ...
Barry Kumnick
neuromorph@...
May 11, 2001 4:54 am
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... Man I'd like to get paid for working on AI! I'd even re-locate from the East Coast. =) Unfortunately a few things kinda take higher priority, such as the...
Alan Grimes
alangrimes@...
May 11, 2001 3:37 pm
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Hi Barry, You claim to have solved most the puzzle. How about some outlines for your theories on the workings of the human mind ? Are emotional states...
Keines
keines@...
May 11, 2001 3:38 pm
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-- Cybernetic Intelligence: The gateway to the future! =) http://users.erols.com/alangrimes/ <my website. Any usage of this e-mail account is subject to the...
Alan Grimes
alangrimes@...
May 11, 2001 4:32 pm
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Hi, I´m a student of psychology highly interested in neural networks. I wanted to ask you where I can find documentation or proofs of the theory that you...
Ctugha
Ctugha@...
May 11, 2001 8:49 pm
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... Yes. See 'Finding Structure in Time' Jeff Elman, Cognitive Science,1990. A copy can be downloaded from Jeff's page here: http://crl.ucsd.edu/~elman/ It's...
Chris & Jessie McKins...
mckinst@...
May 11, 2001 9:06 pm
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Hi, You aren't serious about Windows 3.11 are you? If you are, try NT Workstation, Server, or any of the Linux based OS's. They're all more capable than...
Barry Kumnick
neuromorph@...
May 11, 2001 10:39 pm
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... Read my e-mail headers. ... Way too slow/expensive. When you get used to everything happening within a second of entering the command into your third party...
Alan Grimes
alangrimes@...
May 11, 2001 11:13 pm
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... Me too. My 1976 Kim-1 always sits right beside me. Sometime I like to power it up and key in Lunar Lander... I've long since memorized the 218 byte hex ...
Chris & Jessie McKins...
mckinst@...
May 11, 2001 11:20 pm
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... *The* knowledge representation and computational model? The one that is accepted by all scientists and academics around the globe? The documentation - I...
Danny Ayers
danny@...
May 12, 2001 8:57 am
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You too huh, I used to program on a KIM too. In fact I created a simple multitasking operating system, monitor, and debugger for one back around 1980. I used...
Barry Kumnick
neuromorph@...
May 12, 2001 1:47 pm
482
Hi, I have an extensive (50 page) paper on the theory, but its never been published. I submitted it to the Journal of Computational Neuroscience for ...
Barry Kumnick
neuromorph@...
May 12, 2001 1:47 pm
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Hi Keines, I believe I have solved some of the more critical pieces of the puzzle. Certainly not all of them. I'll be happier when I actually have a conscious ...
