IBM to build brain-like computers

“IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains.”
more on the BBC

Reminds me of the TEDtalk by Kwabena Boahen

Project Implicit

I spoke with some of my colleagues about my fascination of Neuromarketing and the book Blink was recommended to me .

I bought the audio version of it. After one listen all the way through one thing stuck to me (currently listening a second time, so more is surely to come). It is the Project Implicit, haling from Harvard University. A test of associative thinking, teaching us much about old-brain perceptions.

Visit Project Implicit® site here

Brain Magic

Prediction vs Deduction (or referencing)

Some continued thoughts about my new found obsession. After having watched the two videos of the previous post.

The brain is not taking decisions based on experience but based on prediction. You will turn the doorknob, no matter where on the the door it is, we are predicting the door will open by turning the doorknob.

What we do not see, but assume, our brain creates. Living experience in real, and re-livng the same experience by thought, triggers the same areas in the brain. What then, one should ask, is real?

While sitting down, you predict that the chair will catch your bum, not that you will fall as a result of someone pulling away your chair. Nor do you calculate your weight and mass and if the chair will be able to support you. You sit down, predicting the outcome…

Apply this logic to AI and communication and we are moving in the right direction.

Always move, and always move forward, in either of the the 360 radius. Always choose the Geodesic, and your chosen path is the most efficient.

The mind’s foremost task is not to deduct, but to predict…

The brain and and the computer…

First: Backwards engineering the brain

Then: Imagine a computer that functions like a brain…

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