Carnegie Mellon University
How are circuits constructed to give rise to cognition? Have we nearly passed the Turing test? Neuroscientists are making great strides in investigating motifs for cellular and synaptic connectivity in the brain, with the hope that they might be able to reconstruct “thought” by understanding the component parts. Conversely, computer scientists are using different strategies to create better and better interfaces for devices to interact with us in a way that is indistinguishable from another human. An interdisciplinary panel of researchers from Carnegie Mellon’s BrainHub, including the Human-Computer Interaction Institute’s Anind Dey, computer scientist David Touretzky, philosopher Wayne Wu, and neurobiologists Sandra Kuhlman and Alison Barth, discuss these approaches to replicate cognition.
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BrainHub Panel Discussion: Downloading Consciousness: Connectomics and Computer Science
1:01:30 nice definition of consciousness