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Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind, and mathematics

I listened last week to Diane Rehm’s interview with Ray Kurzweil, author of the book “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed” A transcript of the interview can be found here.

Published in mid-November, it is already a New York Times bestseller, and some of the responses to it from prominent […]

December 3rd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: biology, cognitive science, evolution, mathematics, neuroscience, philosophy of mathematics, software, technology | Comments are closed

Birds and the number 0

I’ve been working on an article that has me thinking about neuroscientifc studies on the cerebral representations of magnitude and it happened to be brought to my attention today that Irene Pepperberg spoke at the 2012 Francis Crick Memorial Conference on Consciousness in Animals.

Pepperberg is famous for having worked for many years with […]

August 27th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: biology, cognitive science, evolution, neuroscience, philosophy of mathematics | One comment - (Comments are closed)
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