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On artificial brains

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Neurocomputing, Volume 74, Issue 1-3

Pages 50 - 56

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2010.06.019

Published: 01 December 2010 Publication History

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After a brief discussion about the purposes that might be followed in the creation of an artificial brain, we describe an approach using guidance of the human brain in the project GNOSYS, an EU project to construct a reasoning robot. This is extended to develop the underlying principles of an autonomous artificial brain. How this might be created so as to include consciousness is considered briefly through the CODAM model, and constraints arising from the attempt to provide phenomenological experience to the artificial brain outlined. The most important, conjectured to be that of the brain containing active neurons, leads to the problem of restricted neuronal fan-in and fan-out. The paper concludes on the importance of solving this problem.

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On artificial brains
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning
    2. Philosophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence

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Neurocomputing Volume 74, Issue 1-3

December, 2010

499 pages

ISSN:0925-2312

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Bakhshiev AGundelakh F(2017)Application the Spiking Neuron Model with Structural Adaptation to Describe Neuromorphic SystemsProcedia Computer Science10.1016/j.procs.2017.01.057103:C(190-197)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.procs.2017.01.057
Deng XXu J(2014)A 3D undulatory locomotion model inspired by C. elegans through DNN approachNeurocomputing10.1016/j.neucom.2013.10.019131(248-264)Online publication date: 1-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.neucom.2013.10.019

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