Скачать или смотреть #6 — Potential of Biologically Inspired Neural Modeling with Neurorobotics Expert, Jeffrey Krichmar

Episode 6: In this episode of "On Consciousness," neuroscientists Bernie Baars, Jeff Krichmar, and David Edelman engage in a freewheeling conversation that begins with mulling over the possible development of conscious machines--or ‘conscious artifact,’ as Gerald Edelman put it--sometime in the not-so-distant future.

We unpack the various ‘bumps in the road’ in the quest to build intelligent, sentient machines--the problems of efficiency (with regard to energy utilization, brains run circles around any present-day computers) and dissipation of heat in increasingly miniaturized microcircuitry, among others.

And though Bernie casts a critically important skeptic’s eye on the prospect of in silico conscious artifacts, we all eventually arrive at a sort of amicable consilience: a recognition that such a development is at least possible.

After a tangential--but fun and diverting--foray into the thickets of human evolution and the serendipitous biocultural path that led to modern humans, we return to pondering the road leading to conscious artifacts.

We conclude on an optimistic note, with the promise of the biologically based approach so steadfastly championed by Jeff and a small community of like-minded computational neuroscientists.

Special Guest: Jeff Krichmar, PhD, Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma

Co-Hosts:

Cognitive psychobiologist and originator of GWT Bernard J. Baars, Author of "ON CONSCIOUSNESS: Science & Subjectivity - Updated Works on Global Workspace Theory"

Neuroscientist and paleoanthropologist David Edelman, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College


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