Joseph Dumit, UC Davis
Columbia University, Heyman Center Workshops
Time: 6:15pm
Location: Heyman Center, Columbia University
Sponsor: Heyman Center Workshops
In this talk, the early brain-computer analogy is investigated for how strange and surprising it started out being, challenging researchers to imagine what it might be like to be running programs. Following up suggestions from Allan Newell, perhaps neuroscience can go beyond binary hypothesis testing and design experiments that follow what neurons care about. Examples from Lettvin et. al. are used to demonstrate that one can experimentally play with neurons and generate surprising results. In this manner, brains are not confused with persons, rather, persons are understood to do things with their brains.
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