Friday, October 5, 2007

Week 6-Expert Lecture- Gerald Edelman on Neural Darwinism

With our mind we make this world. I like this statement because without or minds and our imagination the world would not be what it is today. When looking at the brain you would not believe that 80 percent of the brain is made up of water. The brain is composed of many different things like a neuron. This neurons are charged particles that allow you to think. Cognitive computing is about engineering the mind. The most important trend to this is that there are certain minds from all different departments that are beginning to have dreams about putting a theory together about how the brain works. They talk about how we are trying to quicken the pace of how we learn cognitive computing.

Take about IBM research is an exploratory research place that not only studies technology but also studies science. Studying computer science as well as a new discipline called services science. They are starting a collaboration about mind that not only will change the IT world but will change the way that people look at things. They talk about how we are drowning in all this data and information that we no longer need to just look at computers but we need to look at computers in general.

Gerald Edelman is trying to expand our knowledge of the fundamental understandings of science. He has created many things or discoveries that have improved the quality of life for decades now. 1972 he discovered the antibodies and won the Nobel Peace Price. He has saved
many lives due to his work.

It is weird for an empirical scientist to talk about the mind but not a philosopher. At the very beginning of Western scientist said that the mind was taken out of nature. Galileo who is behind the beginning of Western science took it out of nature and began a new thing. Decartes came up with a new theory that Edleman believes is wrong and that is Dualism. Edleman talks about how we need a fundamental base about the world and then we need to be able to mesaure this expirmental and then we need to be able to find the differences.

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