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"Dan Dennett once said that if he hadnt become a philosopher, he might have become an engineer. I think Igor has shown us that the gap between the two professions may be smaller than we think."
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Igor AleksanderNeural computing is the study of cellular networks that have a natural — Igor Aleksander
"Neural computing is the study of cellular networks that have a natural property for storing experimental knowledge. Such systems bear a resemblance to the brain in the sense that knowledge is acquired through training rather than programming and is retained due to changes in node functions. The knowledge takes the form of stable states or cycles of states in the operation of the et. A central property of such nets is to recall these states or cycles in response to the presentation of cues."
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Igor Aleksander
Igor Aleksander
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Igor Aleksander is an emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. He worked in artificial intelligence and neural networks and designed the world's first neural pattern recognition system in the 1980s.
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"A neural network is a massively parallel distributed processor that has a natural propensity for storing experiential knowledge and making it available for use. It resembles the brain in two respects: 1. Knowledge is acquired by the network through a learning process. 2. Interneuron connection strengths known as synaptic weights are used to store the knowledge."
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"Machine consciousness refers to attempts by those who design and analyse informational machines to apply their methods to various ways of understanding consciousness and to examine the possible role of consciousness in informational machines."
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"I am not interested so much in behaviour from which you infer consciousness because that is a mugs game. I dont know whether youre conscious. I take a good guess that you are and you can take a good guess that I am but its not something you can prove. We cant work out what someone else feels."
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"Neural Computing is the study of networks of adaptable nodes which through a process of learning from task examples, store experiential knowledge and make it available for use."
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"Consciousness is an incredibly delicate subject because it offend. Its a subject that scientific groups kept away from. They said it was a philosophical concept."
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