Hi Peter, Bottom line: cognitive science is ultimately a branch of neuroscience that deals with the mind/behaviour without dealing with the science (biophysics) of consciousness. Decades ago it adopted a policy: 'computers as a metaphor for brains'. It then used computers very effectively in the context all down the decades. The use of computers in this way does not mean computer science is neuroscience or cognitive science, nor does that usage prove that 'the brain is a computer'.
In the ARGH!!! thread I have just decoupled computer science and neuroscience properly. It is a major review and consolidation of the relative science contributions that formally specifies the relationship between the conduct of computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, the science of 'artificial general intelligence and the science of consciousness, All these are located in a framework that applies across all the sciences and related engineering. I can put it together in a single document if you're interested. The upcoming sections of the text I am posting to the thread includes the practical conduct of the route to AGI that does not use computers. It has a form of human-mediated 'evolutionary' development. Custom hardware chips are manually developed and then configured by embedding them in an environment and stimulating them. You choose the number of hardware cells and then you explore the range of final stable functions that can be achieved under what conditions. You start with 'single cell' organisms and build up from there. It's not evolutionary development by genetic algorithms because there are no actual algorithms (no software at all). It is evolutionary because the results, as we manually build bigger and bigger chips, increasing the number of cells is, in effect creates the new scope of adaptive behaviours of a robot that is effectively higher on an evolutionary ladder of general intelligence. I remember those early days! It was when I first came to understand what it takes to create artificial general intelligence that does not use computers. I was ignored then, and it continues to this day. It's taken all this time, including an epic PhD on the biophysics, to work out why science hasn't done AGI yet and why it always ends up doing what's in your diagram. Now science can do it and I have designed the basis of the hardware. But it's too late for me to do it. If you want to find out ... please read and comment on the remaining postings to the thread as I do them. I'd appreciate the input. cheers, good to hear from you. colin ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T545884fa809cd5fe-Mb85c3a1552e248f4672411d8 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
