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>From: davidmc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (davidmc)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: From neurons to computation: how?
Message-ID: <DAVIDMC.91Dec16194236@dc.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 17 Dec 91 03:42:36 GMT
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In-Reply-To: geb@dsl.pitt.edu's message of 14 Dec 91 13:45:16 GMT

In article <12684@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
   I don't think it is getting away from comp.ai.philosophy at all.

   [... presents good case for computational neuroethology...]

   and vice versa.  So we get attempts to build a brain using logic,
   which is at the top pinnacle of evolution and tells us little about
   the real hardware.  Top down is fine, but bottom up is needed too.

Here are some good references if you're interested. I especially
recommend Beer's book, it's a PhD thesis about the design and
implementation of a synthetic cockroach: {\em P. computatrix}.

@Book{Beer90,
  author = 	"Beer, R. D.",
  title = 	"Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior",
  publisher = 	"Academic Press",
  year = 	"1990",
  volume = 	"6",
  series = 	"Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence",
}

@Unpublished{Cliff90,
  author = 	"Cliff, D. T.",
  title = 	"Computational Neuroethology: A Provisional Manifesto",
  note = 	"Cognitive Science Research Paper",
  year = 	"1990",
  month = 	"May"
}

@Book{Camhi84,
  author = 	"Camhi, J. M.",
  title = 	"Neuroethology",
  publisher = 	"Sinauer Associates",
  year = 	"1984",
}

@Article{Altman89,
  author = 	"Altman, J. S. and Kien, J.",
  title = 	"New models of motor control.",
  journal = 	"Neural Computation",
  volume = 	"1",
  pages = 	"173-183",
}

@Article{Selverston88,
  author = 	"Selverston, A. I.",
  title = 	"A consideration of invertebrate central pattern
		 generators as computational data bases",
  journal = 	"Neural Networks",
  volume = 	"1",
  number = 	"2",
  pages = 	"109-117",
}

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David McFadzean (davidmc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca)
Knowledge Sciences Institute
University of Calgary


