RE: [agi] WordNet and NARS

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Goertzel
hi I'm also extremely interested in biological applications, but maybe your choice is biased by your (emotional) preference for science and is actually not optimal / rational. I'm sure it's rational; of course I'm not sure it's *optimal*! Business is not a very exact science, and one is

[agi] Down Under

2004-02-06 Thread Peter Voss
I'll be visiting Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Auckland later this month. I anyone Down Under wants to meet me to chat about the Singularity, AGI, etc. drop me a line mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter --- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription,

[agi] Within-cell computation in biological neural systems??

2004-02-06 Thread Philip Sutton
Does anyone have an up-to-date fix on how much computation occurs (if any) within-cells (as opposed to the traditional neural net level) that are part of biolgical brain systems? especially in the case of animals that have a premium placed on the number of neurones they can support

RE: [agi] Within-cell computation in biological neural systems??

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Goertzel
This is sort of a vague question, Philip. Clearly there is a lot of complex information-processing going on inside cells --- DNA is a kind of complex computer program, and its genes code for proteins, some of which collectively form a kind of assembler and compiler for this program, etc.