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Article 2536 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: The Rules of the Game (reply to V. Yodaiken) was Re: Searle's response to silicon brain?
Keywords: [sorry about late reply - newsfeed was dead for weeks]
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Date: 7 Jan 92 18:56:29 GMT
References: <40825@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1991Dec19.222224.7716@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com> <40972@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Jan6.000140.7015@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com>
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In article <1992Jan6.000140.7015@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com> max@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com (Max Webb) writes:
|In article <40972@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
|>In article <1991Dec19.222224.7716@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com> max@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com (Max Webb) writes:
|>>Read Koch & Segev, for a start. The simple fact is that real neurons
|>>are being simulated now, generating identical waveforms, and behavior.

|>... but I keep seeing material in scientific journals which contradicts
|>your claim. ...

|I repeat: the evidence that neurons can be simulated in realistic
|ways is there. You have been given references; either retract your
|claim, or refute the (rapidly growing) body of work. The swimming
|behavior of Lampreys can be simulated on Crays, and the high level
|behavior of visual cortex has also been replicated to a substantial
|degree.

And in this week's (or last week's?) issue of Science News there was a notice
about someone who had manufactured a silicon neuron (analog) that produced
identical firing patterns to some particular class of biological neurons.
[to the point of beng indistinguishable in EEG style traces to expert
neurologists].

Unfortunately, this was only a note, so I cannot really evaluate how much
hype there is in this claim.  [Hmm, could this be the latest result by
Koch and Segev?]
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