How about Knowing Through… How can we embody a neural network/learning system through multi-modal sensing? b
Bill Seaman Professor, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies DUKE UNIVERSITY 114 b East Duke Building Box 90764 Durham, NC 27708, USA +1-919-684-2499 http://billseaman.com/ http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/william.seaman http://www.dibs.duke.edu/research/profiles/98-william-seaman On Oct 15, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Stanley N Salthe <[email protected]> wrote: > On that "curious definition of knowledge", it looks like 'knowing how' rather > than 'knowing that'. > > STAN > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan > <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear FIS Colleagues, > > Thanks to Zhao Chuan for the Computer Poem/Song. It is a soft way to > retake our discussions. These weeks there have been a couple of > important achievements in the bio-information field. On the one side, > the first 'complete' model of a prokaryotic cell ("A Whole-Cell > Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype", by Karr et al., > Cell, 150, 389-401, 2012). On the other, there was the report of another > 'complete' scheme, that of the C. elegans nervous system, now at the > level of individual synaptic contacts, which was able to explain the > mating behavior of the worm ("The Connectome of a Decision-Making Neural > Network", by Jarrell et al., Science, 337, 437-444, 2012). It contained > several references to the "information flow" through interneurons and > sensorimotor circuits, and a very curious definition of knowledge (as > "the set of activity weights in an adjacency matrix of a neural network, > upon which the network's input-output function in part depends..."). > > Both papers are very interesting, relatively consistent with each other, > and I think both represent symbolic milestones in the bio-information > field. The point on information flows left me thinking on the larger > perspective beyond single information items that we rarely focus on. > Actually the first Shannonian information metaphor was about "sources" > and "channels" --wasn't it? Particularly thinking on social information > matters, how many aspects of contemporary life relate to the maintenance > of the information flows intertwining and directing the economic flows. > No doubt that the "forces of communication" have definitely won the > upper hand upon the "forces of production ". > > Somehow, Zhao Chuan's poem is but a celebration of the central role that > computers have come to play in the gigantic information flows of our time. > > best wishes > > --Pedro > > -- > ------------------------------------------------- > Pedro C. Marijuán > Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group > Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud > Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA) > Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X > 50009 Zaragoza, Spain > Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818) > [email protected] > http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ > ------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > fis mailing list > [email protected] > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > > _______________________________________________ > fis mailing list > [email protected] > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
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