Eric,
Thanks for this. I just read his paper, A quantitative theory of
neural computation, and its quite good. It is particularly nice that
he uses human cognition as a basis for defining (and defending) his
models, but also generalizes the models so that they could apply to
non-human-like neural concept systems...
Mike
On 6/13/06, Eric Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I just found that Les has several new papers on the subject and related
subjects at http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~valiant/
>> Ben,
>>
>> I'd point you to Les Valiant's book Circuits of the Mind for a
>> serious attempt to answer precisely such questions.
>>
>> It's been years since I read it, and my recollection is hazy, so I
>> won't attempt much of a summary. The book posits units of several
>> (hundred?) neurons called neuroids that act as finite state
>> machines with various properties, and then gives algorithms by
>> which the whole system could be programmed to learn, for example,
>> concepts of exactly the type you ask.
Ben> Thanks, I will check it out...
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