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When can we say that machines are conscious?
Short answer: We don't know.
Long answer: There are a few major lines of thinking on the subject currently.
Cognitive closure: One common argument is that this question is simply not answerable - at ...
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'Model-free' learning in humans
As per the comments to the question, human research observing this distinction does exist. CHCH possibly alludes to an article by Gläscher, Daw, Dayan and O'Doherty (2010) which concisely defines the ...
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The computer model of the brain
This question's reference to a classical computer refers to a "Turing Machine" style of computation, also known as a knowledge system, in which decisions and possible results are pre-...
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How are humans able to read scrambled text/characters (e.g., CAPTCHA)?
A human brain recognises letters by their constituent features (sub-letter parts). It is modelized by a pandemonium model where printed information is extracted locally then globally. In the letter ...
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Are there working computational frameworks for human behavior and personality?
Cognitive Architectures
The description most closely matches the concept of a cognitive architecture. Whereas I would say most empirical cognitive science focuses on isolating cognitive functions or ...
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How to begin neural network Programming
A google search for neural network library will return many relevant pages, with neural network libraries written in several programming languages.
You could also look for tutorials on programming ...
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Have there been any studies into language development in the blind?
Yes, there have been a number of studies on language development in children with congenital profound visual impairment (PVI) over the years. Selma Fraiberg first described differences in early ...
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What are some credible conferences and journals in computational neuroscience?
Adding to what was already mentioned, there are several "Frontiers" journals:
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
Frontiers in Synaptic ...
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Converting human's memory into digital data
I am wondering whether converting someone's memory into digital data is possible or not.
Not today, but it is an active area of research.
One non-profit foundation, headed by computational ...
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Is it fair to categorize the neurons in the output layer of artificial neural networks as grandmother cells?
I would say it depends on what your goals are and what parts of the grandmother cell "story" you want to highlight.
Sure, the output layer is grandmother-like because it can represent single concepts
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Difference between brain and electronic device signals
This is a pretty broad question, however I think it's common enough that I think it's worth trying to answer. I'll break it down into the following:
What signals do the brain send?
How are these ...
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Could physically simulating neural structure on a fundamental level yield superior results to machine learning algorithms?
Very interesting question. Although I have not a single little bit of expertise in this area, I do have some references you may want to read. First is a paper by Merz and Fromherz (2005) where they ...
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Can machines really create anything new?
This is actual a pretty old and often debated question. It is called "Lady Lovelace's Objection" and first appeared in Alan Turing's seminal paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence".
Below is my ...
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Looking for a paper: AI in human host
Finally!
I found a news article explaining the Echoborg.
The research was done in 2015 by Kevin Corti and Alex Gillespi at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Published at ...
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How do we know that neurons are the only cells involved in cognitive computation?
For what it's worth, I don't think the biologists are making this assumption; the biology clearly shows it is not correct to exclude, say, astrocytes from "computation" in the broadest sense....
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When can we say that machines are conscious?
All we can say now is that machines have aspects of consciousness. This is according to Pagel (2017), who provides a summary of the various areas web-based browsers meet the criteria, or not:
Pagel ...
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What is understanding of natural language and how can we test or measure it?
Natural language understanding systems can be based on discourse representation theories, which represent the meaning of English sentences as first-order logical predicates. Attempto Controlled ...
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What are some credible conferences and journals in computational neuroscience?
I am not an expert on AI, but Cognitive Sciences at Indiana University lists the following journals that cover your topic. The journals look credible, as they are published by Elsevier and MIT, both ...
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Question concerning Jeff Hawkins' On Intelligence
Summary
I think Hawkins' terminology tends to be not as precise as it should be. I guess that's the root cause of this question as well.
The impression that Hawkins says computers or neural networks ...
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What are the top contributions from neuroscience to AI and viceversa? How much progress has been made from the interaction between these two fields?
There is a really close correspondence between Auditory Scene Analysis and Computational Auditory Scene Analysis. If you tried to build a speech recognition system, especially for use in noisy ...
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Is there a biological equivalent to the bias term used in artificial neural networks?
Let's call "response function" the function that gives a neuron's firing rate (or probability of firing) given its input. Then, different kinds of neurons have different response functions. All of ...
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Integrated Information Theory - If correct could humans create artificial consciousness?
IIT implies that just about everything is 'conscious' (to a degree) in that you can measure its integrated information to say how conscious it is, while accepting that what we as humans typically ...
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Is there any recent review of the book "Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry Into Human Knowledge Structures"?
That's not really how scientific publishing works; people don't typically "review" old books.
They do cite them, though. You can search for a book or paper on Google Scholar and click the &...
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The computer model of the brain
This line of thought actually represents the current state of the art in scientific approaches to the brain. Before we discovered electricity and that (peripheral) neurons conduct electricity, one ...
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Counterfactual thinking and the origin of language
This is controversial, to say the least, and possibly false according to one interpretation on such experiments with monkeys. But note that there is a subtlety here: the way counterfactuals are ...
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What are some credible conferences and journals in computational neuroscience?
You also will want to check out PLOS Computational Biology.
Most importantly, you want to read reviews in journals such as Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and Trends in ...
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What is "intelligence" in "artificial intelligence"?
This is a very broad and not well defined issue, but two theories that may help you to get a better understanding are the following :
Triarchic theory of intelligence by Robert J. Sternberg
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Other emotions relative to angry/happy base emotions
As I mentioned in the comments, the tool we're using is pyAudioAnalysis. The tool's author, Theodoros Giannakopoulos, also wrote an earlier paper "A dimensional approach to emotion recognition of ...
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Is the current approach to AI learning essentially behaviourism?
This is an interesting proposal, but I think is not quite right when we look the definitions at the base.
To start Behaviorism assumes that behavior is either a reflex evoked by the pairing of certain ...
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Understanding neuronal firing in the context of Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity
I find this detail a little confusing when we learn spike-timing-dependent plasticity for example.
In the original spike timing dependent plasticity work by Bi and Poo (1998), the focus is best ...
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