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Article 2046 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: From neurons to computation: how?
Message-ID: <1991Dec11.220512.22087@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 11 Dec 91 22:05:12 GMT
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In article <12664@pitt.UUCP> geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks) writes:
>The slug brains were mapped by Eric Kandel and coworkers of Columbia
>University.  I believe they do have all the firing times, thresholds,
>and synaptic connections.  There are 27 neurons in this slug brain,
>if I remember correctly.

Please accept my apology for my previous remark, and thank you for the
pointer.  If this slug brain does indeed only contains 27 neurons then
it seems at least possible that the complete functioning is known.  If
I find the work by Eric Kandel I'll post a summary, if there is interest
in this topic here.  *I* think it's extremely interesting, but it seems
to be getting away from the point of comp.ai.philosophy (sorry).

Mark Corscadden
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