I only read an Intro (about 30 pages) and don't see any jarring concepts (comparing to CLA)
Azat -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 11/1/13, Hannu Kettinen <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [nupic-dev] Using NuPIC as an engine for WBE To: "NuPIC general mailing list." <[email protected]> Date: Friday, November 1, 2013, 6:10 AM My copy arrived today and it seems like a interesting piece of work. From Chris Eliasmith book “How to build a BRAIN a neural architecture for biological cognition” preface (XII): “The architecture I propose and develop in this book is called the “Semantic Pointer Architecture" (SPA), for reasons that will subsequently become clear. I believe a central departure of the SPA from past attempts to articulate theories of cognition is that cognitive systems perform logic-like computations in a language of thought or that they are best described as abstract nodes connected together in a network. Rather, it gives equal time to Biology.” -Hannu On 01 Nov 2013, at 01:40, Azat <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Brain-Architecture-Architectures/dp/0199794545/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383266328&sr=1-1 > > Azat > > -------------------------------------------- > On Thu, 10/31/13, Dean Horak <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: [nupic-dev] Using NuPIC as an engine for WBE > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 6:28 PM > > I'm in the beginning stages of > planning a project to perform whole brain emulation and am > considering using NuPIC as the engine. Unlike the BBP/BBP, > my plan is to focus on biological plausibility at the > macroscale level of nuclei, rather than concern for > plausibility at the meso or neuronal level for the sake of > computation requirements. This is similar to the idea behind > Spaun, in that they are shooting for functional realism > rather than biological fidelity. > > I started building my models using the Nengo platform > (which is used by Spaun), but because it still shoots for > relative biological plausibility at the neuronal level, > it's computational demands are simply too great for my > purpose (and my limited hardware). > > Therefore, my intent is to take my models (beginning with > a simplified caudate nucleus, simple sensory and motor > cortices, rudimentary thalamus and possible a basic > hippocampus) and implement them on top of the NuPIC or > similar engine. I envision this as multiple distinct > networks, each interconnected, as in the thalami-cortical > loop. Once I'm able to get this simplified model > performing correctly, I plan on building out additional > structures and refining the existing ones, as well as their > connectivity in an iterative fashion guided by > experiment. > > My question to the NuPIC group is, do you envision any > architectural limitations in NuPIC that might be of concern > in using it in this manner, or any thoughts on why NuPIC may > or may not be a good fit for this project? > > I've been toying with NuPIC since it's first > release, but only as a replacement for simple ANN > applications, but I've just recently subscribed to the > maillist so if this is not the correct venue for a question > such as this, kindly let me know and I'll direct it > elsewhere. > > Thanks, > > Dean Horak > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org > > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
