On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:00:58PM -0300, Lúcio de Souza Coelho wrote: > As it happens, I *am* a programmer. And I would gladly accept your > gradualistic argument, if the Blue Brain had AI goals. But it is > guided toward neuroscience... *Perhaps* insights obtained with the
The goals of computational neuroscience and AI are pretty much the same, even though their practitioners would disagree. It doesn't matter what they believe, it only matters what they *do* > Blue Brain will be used in some fields of AI, but to point the Blue > Brain project as it is now as an example of "simulation of human mind" > sounds like a falacy of undue amplification... There are three projects on large scale neuronal emulation, Blue Brain being just one of them. And the scanning technology has been making giant advances in the last few years -- mm^3 via TEM is quite doable these days. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
