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Dear Connectionist colleagues,</div>
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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">I was invited by my Dartmouth College classmates to give a short talk at our mini-reunion on February 23, 2023 about my life’s work developing
neural network models of how brains make minds.</span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">
</span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">I was asked to talk because this work</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="background:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18pt" class="ContentPasted0">
began in 1957 when I was a Dartmouth Freshman taking Introductory Psychology. </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">As the talk notes, I first studied how humans learn lists; e.g., the alphabet A, B, C,...during serial verbal learning.</span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="background:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18pt" class="ContentPasted0">Since those early beginnings, my colleagues and I have clarified how
we consciously see, hear, feel, and know things about the world, and use conscious states to plan and act to realize valued goals. When the models break down, they exhibit behavioral symptoms of mental disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, autism, and
disordered sleep. The models are also used in adaptively intelligent algorithms and robots in engineering and AI. See </span></span><a href="http://sites.bu.edu/steveg" data-attribute-index="0" style="line-height:inherit !important;touch-action:manipulation;text-align:start" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="link"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:rgb(255, 255, 255)">sites.bu.edu/steveg</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-align:start;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0"> for
details.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><br style="line-height:inherit !important;color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);text-align:start" class="ContentPasted0">
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</span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);text-align:start;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">My
recently published Magnum Opus </span><span style="background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind</span></b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">
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<a href="https://lnkd.in/eiJh4Ti" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:rgb(255, 255, 255)">https://lnkd.in/eiJh4Ti</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="ContentPasted0">summarizes these discoveries in a self-contained and non-technical way.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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Best,</div>
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Steve Grossberg<br>
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