Bio-inspired and Cognitive Algorithms
Tonight was the first class, and I very much enjoyed the lecture. Dr. Leonid Perlovsky is quite engaging, clearly enjoying and thinking about his topic while taking the measure of the audience and responding as his algorithms would - with emotional intelligence and dynamic modification.
A long description of the course is here.
The text is Neural Networks and Intellect: Using Model-Based Concepts
I’m trying to think up some project to play with the ideas presented.
A long loop back cognitive tape machine playing Pink Floyd comes to mind.
Some of my notes from the class-
Perlovsky considers culture to be strongly influenced by language. He specifically calls out the successes and problems of the US as being largely due to the English language.
At some point he wrote a paper on how the brain could use Quantum Mechanics in its operation, but it was not clear that he still considers this to be likely.
He considers evolvable ontologies to be a worthwhile current challenge.
Recommends Rhetoric for Alexander as good reading.