These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers.
These imaginative thought experiments are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers. They are "vehicles," a series of hypothetical, self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized "behavior." Each of the vehicles in the series incorporates the essential features of all the earlier models and along the way they come to embody aggression, love, logic, manifestations of foresight, concept formation, creative thinking, personality, and free will. In a section of extensive biological notes, Braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research.

Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology

Science & Math

Braitenberg, Valentino

Behavioral Sciences

Bradford Books

This software and accompanying illustrated manual will allow the user to run three prototypes from the book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, by Valentino Braitenberg. The programs are Love and Hate, Growth and Decay, and Rabbit Run. The software can be run on a Macintosh TM computer with 512K or more memory.    For further information, users will want to consult appropriate chapters in Braitenberg's book of imaginative thought experiments or "vehicles," a series of hypothetical, self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized "behavior." In a section of extensive biological notes, Braitenberg locates many elements of his fantasy in current brain research.

Vehicles: A Program Based on the Book (Bradford Books)

Literature & Fiction

Greilich, Horst

Essays & Correspondence

Mit Pr

By means of quantitative analysis of the tissue components in the cortex of the mouse, this book presents an overall picture of the cortical network which is then related to various theories on cortical function. Centering around the idea of a diffuse network in a fairly homogeneous population of excitatory neurons, that of the pyramidal cells, it shows that the whole organisation in the cortical skeleton of pryramidal cells corresponds well with the idea of an associative memory and with the theory of cell assemblies. Provides the reader with information on quantitative neuroanatomy and also on the methods used, in particular those that vary from the norm.

Cortex: Statistics and Geometry of Neuronal Connectivity

Computers & Technology

Schüz, Almut

Computer Science

Springer

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