How does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiologists investigate how nature accomplishes this feat, computer scientists interested in artificial intelligence strive to achieve this through technology. “The Self-Assembling Brain” tells the stories of both fields, exploring the historical and modern approaches taken by the scientists pursuing answers to the quandary: What information is necessary to make an intelligent neural network?
As Peter Robin Hiesinger argues, “the information problem” underlies both fields, motivating the questions driving forward the frontiers of research.
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Self-Assembling Brain’ by Peter Robin Hiesinger
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Self-Assembling Brain’ by Peter Robin Hiesinger
What We Are Reading Today: A Defence of Pretence by Indira Ghose
Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and exclud-ing others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarized world, enabling us to overcome tribal loyalties and cooperate for the common good?
In “A Defence of Pretence,” Indira Ghose argues that it is both.
Ghose turns to the drama of Shakespeare’s time to explore the notion of civility. The theater, she suggests, was a laboratory where many of the era’s conflicts played out.
The plays test the precepts found in treatises on civility and show that, in the complexity and confusion of human life, moral purity is an illusion.
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