#neural simulator

Architects of Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain

Is the human brain an elaborate organic computer? Since the time of the earliest electronic computers, some have imagined that with sufficiently robust memory, processing speed, and programming, a functioning human brain can be replicated in silicon. Others disagree, arguing that central to the workings of the brain are inherently non-computational processes. Do we differ from complex computer…

The Possibility of Artificial Consciousness – Murray Shanahan

One way a scientist might set about building a conscious artefact is to attempt to make a near perfect simulation of the brain of a small animal, say a mouse, and then to “wire it up” to a mouse-like robot body. In this talk I will introduce some of the technological challenges this would involve, and ask whether the resulting artefact would in fact have conscious experiences. After reviewing…