Ben Goertzel wrote:
I know Dharmendra Mohdha a bit, and I've corresponded with Eugene
Izhikevich who is Edelman's collaborator on large-scale brain
simulations. I've read Tononi's stuff too. I think these are all smart
people with deep understandings, and all in all this will be research
money well spent.
However, there is no "design for a thinking machine" here. There is
cool work on computer simulations of small portions of the brain.
I find nothing to disrespect in the scientific work involved in this
DARPA project. It may not be the absolute most valuable research path,
but it's a good one.
However, IMO the rhetoric associating it with "thinking machine
building" is premature and borderline dishonest. It's marketing
rhetoric.
I agree with this last paragraph wholeheartedly: this is exactly what I
meant when I said "Neuroscience vaporware".
I also know Tononi's work, because I listened to him give a talk about
consciousness once. It was *computationally* incoherent.
Richard Loosemore
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