Connectionists: Scientific Integrity, the 2021 Turing Lecture, etc.

[Wlodzislaw Duch]

This is a very good point - little research has been done on complex 
aspects of brain dynamics that can explain human behavior. Each 
subculture has different set of concepts and their associations that 
determine the way the see the world. Neuroscientists cannot test it on 
rats, psychologists do behavioral tests but then confabulate to explain 
results.

As the first step towards understanding "us" and our brains I have just 
published a theoretical paper trying to link meme transmission and 
formation of conspiracy theories with attractor neural networks:

Duch W. (2021). Memetics and Neural Models of Conspiracy Theories.
Patterns. Cell Press.   DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100353

Best, Wlodek Duch


W dniu 08.11.2021 o 09:00, Michael Arbib pisze:
> How can we hope to understand each other when we cannot even understand the brain?
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> Or more accurately, the variations of brains in diverse bodies growing up in diverse societies .... A long way from the abstractions that have been at the core of this thread.
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> Michael A. Arbib
> Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of California at San Diego
> Former and Founding Coordinator, Advisory Council, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
> Emeritus at the University of Southern California: University Professor; Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience, & Psychology.
>
> When Brains Meet Buildings: A Conversation Between Neuroscience and Architecture was published by Oxford University Press in August 2021.
> https://global.oup.com/academic/product/when-brains-meet-buildings-9780190060954
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> How can we hope to understand the brain when we cannot even understand each other?
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Prof. Włodzisław Duch
Fellow, International Neural Network Society
Past President, European Neural Network Society
Head, Neurocognitive Laboratory, CMIT NCU, Poland
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