Friday, April 28, 2017

Red rainbowfish: MIT bachelor's degree in brain and cognitive sciences, Research assistant at UC Berkeley studying memory, Fluent in Japanese, Interest in philosophical and brain science questions about consciousness, Google / Stanford's Tom Dean - "Automatically Inferring Meso-scale Models of Neural Computation", I ask at 49 mins abt data-with many implications for a realistic virtual earth with TIME SLIDER and at atomic level, Colin McGinn's "The Mysterious Flame" (1999), Tom Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?" (1974), David Chalmer's Consciousness.net e.g. "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" (1995), Add your name to my new research group page - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html - where it would be fun to explore further the questions of consciousness and brain modeling


Hi Aimi,

It was very nice to meet and talk with you at the Wikimedia Wikisalon in SF on Wednesday. Since you have a MIT bachelor's degree in brain and cognitive sciences and work as a research assistant at UC Berkeley studying memory, and have some interest in philosophical and brain science questions about consciousness ...

here are some of the articles and media we were talking about and potentially re the questions about consciousness ... 

Google / Stanford's Tom Dean - 
"Automatically Inferring Meso-scale Models of Neural Computation"


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Google/Stanford's Tom Dean Automatically Inferring Meso-scale Models of Neural Computation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HazJ7LHihG8 … I ask at 49 mins abt data


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The question I ask at about 49:15 minutes: 

"Thank you for a fascinating presentation. If you were to build a process of simulation on this Connectome project, going from the molecular to the behavioral, beyond intuition, and extend that to the nano as well as to the neuronal as well as to say a street view level - e.g. Google Streetview with time slider with open simulator - what would be the limitations in the kinds of data that exist now you would like to overcome in creating, say, this fly brain, or similar, that even could extend around us in an augmented reality for various kinds of STEM research?" 

Tom replies at about 50:10 minutes ... 

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Curious how philosophy of mind / questions of how consciousness works will emerge newly out of such "Automatically Inferring Meso-scale Models of Neural Computation" ... and re the following ... 

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See, too - 

Fledermaus: Mouse came out of near my windshield wipers Friday night coming home from UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group (I'm giving a talk on my Harbin book on F May 5!), Glad we're talking about modeling a mouse brain with artificial intelligence by 2020 ... 
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See, as well - 
Colin McGinn's "The Mysterious Flame" (1999) - 

Tom Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?" (1974) - http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/activities/modules/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf - which address some of these questions ... and see, too, 

David Chalmer's Consciousness.net e.g. "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" (1995) by David J. Chalmers - http://consc.net/papers/facing.html


Newnes, and Wolgan Valley, NSW: What's the newness "program" in the philosophical / brain science study of consciousness ... as in the school of "New Mysterions" (Nagel, McGinn et al.)?, What new possibilities for understanding consciousness will emerge by modeling it in a realistic virtual earth/virtual brains/bodyminds at the atomic, molecular, cellular and street view levels for many/all species?, So, in a way, philosophical and brain/bodymind science questions of consciousness are an amazingly beautiful flag for those who think about these questions, - since they are unresolved questions ... for us human primates, post-Darwin ... 

Could I please add your name to my new research page - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html - where it would be fun to explore further the questions of consciousness and brain modeling that we were talking about yesterday evening?

Best regards, 
Scott


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World University and School also seeks to develop approaches building of the Connectome project, and re consciousness, too, engaging all 8,044 languages for research.

Languages at WUaS -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

- worlduniversityandschool.org




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