where is cognitive science going?
BackIs space really the final frontier?
Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: May 1, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Author: redliterocket4
Length: 00:09:42
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Tags: mind brain cognitivism emergence enactivism thinking science philosophy
Video Comments:
Valetudo21 (February 26, 2008 at 4:23 am)
Neural networks are far too simple to work alone. They are not the end-all solution to the machine intelligence problem. I am involved in AI research for my company and the model we are currently working on far surpasses existing learning models using neural networks. Neural networks are at the core of this model, however there are many other design techniques required to simulate memory and rational thought or behaviour.
asuraizen (July 18, 2008 at 6:51 am)
hmmm
I'm planning on a career in AI research. Still a long way to go but yeah the concept is a challenge when it is difficult to make a computer architecture which is able to imitate human behavior.
But my thoughts would say that the final frontier would still be space, 78 billion light years (which is the farthest the hubble has seen). Not really something that can be thought possible to traverse compared to discovering the secrets of the brain.
I'm planning on a career in AI research. Still a long way to go but yeah the concept is a challenge when it is difficult to make a computer architecture which is able to imitate human behavior.
But my thoughts would say that the final frontier would still be space, 78 billion light years (which is the farthest the hubble has seen). Not really something that can be thought possible to traverse compared to discovering the secrets of the brain.
balance311 (July 26, 2007 at 11:24 pm)
metacognition is a strange beast, a paradox at least, because of its rather peculiar implications. generally we use symbols to conceptualize this mind-thing as an entity that holds or contains thoughts, but our subjective experience ultimately leads us to phenomenology, after which the concept of mind seems to disappear. we can conceptualize the mind in the same manner in which we can conceptualize the cosmos; we can think ABOUT it but never actually experience it in its totality.
thewhitekimby (June 16, 2007 at 6:10 pm)
I'm not sure I would say that neural networks are so new relative to cognitivism. Frank Rosenblatt published the Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms back in 1962, and you can find earlier references. It's just that Marvin Minsky (Perceptrons, 1969) and others were able to prevent neural networks from being well funded by focusing on problems like XOR.
redliterocket4 (June 16, 2007 at 6:16 pm)
yeah they aren't new, they just weren't taken as seriously as they are now.
thewhitekimby (June 16, 2007 at 6:05 pm)
Do you think that introspection is the best way to study the mind? It seems that what we're conscious of is only the tip of the iceberg. I don't want to use the metaphor of consciousness being the endproduct of brain processing, but if you want to learn how a television works, you don't just stare at the screen. You open it up.
redliterocket4 (June 16, 2007 at 6:15 pm)
Ah, the TV is an interesting metaphor... the TV itself does not create the video screen... so opening it up would explain nothing. The TV is a receiver, it gets its picture from somewhere else, and as far as we know the brain could work the same way.
redliterocket4 (June 16, 2007 at 6:17 pm)
And introspection can be more powerful than I think you give it credit for. There are Buddhist meditative techniques that explore the nature of the mind far deeper than just the conscious surface.
mongzhu (March 3, 2008 at 2:03 am)
Buddhist meditative techniques are more important in respect to train your mind and use the placticity of the brain to change metabolic processes within it.
redliterocket4 (May 1, 2007 at 6:47 pm)
The final frontier is the mind, "inside space" so to speak. But when I heard myself say that truth was more likely going to be found by "increasing the depth of understanding of ourselves through introspection," I thought I was leaving out something important, namely intersubjectivity. I'll comment on that in my next video on enactive cognition.