"The AGI conferences are the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond." This is a small conference (I expect around 200 people, give or take), and this year it comes in two parts, AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts ( Read more... )

The perception of conscious will is an inference. Daniel Wegner demonstrated a while ago, that it is easy to create experimental setups, where the subject has illusion of freely causing events, which are completely independent of his actions or intentions.

cognitivedaily is reporting on an experiment, which sheds some extra light on the inference of conscious ( Read more... )

I recently found a very cool short paper (4 pages) which Dennis Gabor written 40 years ago.

It explains the math of associative holographic memory, which turns out to be very simple.

Because it is that simple, neither holograms, nor even waves and oscillations, are actually necessary to implement this scheme of associative memory.

D. Gabor, ( Read more... )

Recently, I reread a number of papers in neuro. The one I liked the most is "Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness" by Francis Crick and Christof Koch in Seminars in the Neurosciences (1990), Volume 2, pages 263-275 ( Read more... )

Friday, Nov 7 2008, 4pm, MIT 46-3002
Terrence J. Sejnowski

Google Brain"The brain is not just a computing device: It is also a powerful communication network, with the total bandwidth of signaling between neurons comparable to that of the entire World Wide Web. How is all the traffic between brain areas regulated? How does the brain store and ( Read more... )

Our thinking about fMRI data is too straightforward.

( We see this signal in primary visual cortex (V1) of monkeys engaged in periodic fixation tasks, even in
total darkness, with little or no measurable underlying neuronal activity. )

"Подмигивание" -- one of the most pronounced dynamic "visual illusions" (flash ( Read more... )

If you have registered, this is a reminder, that the conference is on May 9, this Wednesday ( Read more... )

Statistical Mechanics of Brain Activity

Tue, Apr 3, 2007, 4pm, rm 46-3189

Jack Cowan (Math Dept, U. of Chicago) wrote a number of very interesting papers in mathematical neuroscience.

Numenta is founded by Jeff Hawkins, the author of "On Intelligence" (memory-prediction framework).

A research release of their "Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing" is now available for Linux and Mac OS (free, targeted at sophisticated developers for the purpose of education and experimentation, no deployment rights).