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A collection of 3 posts

multiple embedded Socrates

following on from my earlier post, straight after reading mixing memory on Keil's work on our shallow knowledge, I happened to read chapter of Semantic Cognition by Rogers & McClelland (2004) that attempts to model our causal knowledge systems with a connectionist model. Except that it doesn'

flying dalek rats

meanwhile, down at the university of Florida they're building an army of brains in vats GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida scientist has grown a living ìbrainî that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network.

March Reading List

Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett TP takes on war, the military and misogyny on his own terms and after his own now famous style. The setting is of course Discworld and the technology of the day, is approximately C18 in old money, but as always the parallels and satires apply