Cognition Futures updates & Lab News | SMN 201128
Saturday Morning NeuroSim for November 28, 2020
This week on OREL’s Saturday Morning NeuroSim
We visit with new and returning members; recap previous thoughts on Developmental AI themes in the lab; get an update on Anson’s project, Jesse unveils structural updates from the Cognition Futures team, and continue our journal club. We also discuss a critique of Daniel Dennet’s commentary McCulloch-Pitts nets with regard to “Learning”, and continue to update lab note taking strategies and “deploy or die” implementations to knowledge creation.
News
The upcoming talk with PI & Head Scientist Bradly Alicea at the Philosophers Web Cafe will stream virtually on Friday, December 11th (Link Forthcoming). Also, we and mention the much-anticipated Montreal AI-Neuroscience Conference (MAIN 2020), which several lab members will attend.
Paper Discussion & Mentions
- Gaussian process linking functions for mind, brain, and behavior — Bahg et al
- The Math is not the Territory: Navigating the Free Energy Principle by Mel Andrews
- Beyond connectionism: a neuronal dance of ephaptic and synaptic interactions — Commentary on “The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation” by Wright and Bourke
- The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation, by Wright & Bourke
- Thinking avant la lettre: A Review of 4E Cognition, by James Carney
Meeting Recording
Twitter thread
Presentation
SurveyCogModel, link
Supplemental Notes
Register for MAIN 2020 link
