New Scientist has an interview with Igor Aleksander of Imperial College,
London about his new book "How to build a Mind". From this interview it
seems as though there are several groups around the world working in this
area.
BillK
http://www.newscientist.com/nl/0819/aleksander.html
> What's an engineer doing up to his elbows in neurons? Intelligent things,
> says Igor Aleksander of Imperial College London. He was one of the
> pioneers of neural computers that borrow heavily on the brain's design.
> By the 1980s, they could learn, recognise patterns and have since found
> their place in everything from controlling flight simulators to focusing
> your camera. Now they're going back to their roots, helping us to
> understand the human brain. Aleksander believes you can even talk of
> machines that have imagination. Jeremy Webb asked him if he was
> serious about the claims in his book How to Build a Mind
> Q. That is a very provocative book title because it implies that you know
> how to do it. Do you?
> A. No. But I hope to find out by doing it. When they don't understand
> something engineers try to build it. But there is an intended frisson in
> that you might expect to be able to build a brain, but not a mind,
> whereas I'm arguing that a mind is an emergent property of brains
> one might build.
> How to Build a Mind is published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson
> (ISBN 029784296X)
> From New Scientist magazine, 19 August 2000.
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