Check out the website below for video of the machine in action.
The inverted machine - Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) is a light-weight sculpture, constructed from sticks, strings and little plumbs. At the same time it is a full functional logic exact neural network. Through its strict geometric and otherwise very filigree construction, the observer is […]

The Chinese Room argument is a thought experiment and associated arguments designed by John Searle (Searle 1980) to show that a symbol processing machine like a computer can never be properly described as having a “mind” or “understanding”, regardless of how intelligently it may behave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Room
I’ve had this in tab for about a week now and […]

Henry Markram talks about Blue Brain and the prospects for future large scale neural simulations.
http://lis.epfl.ch/resources/podcast/mp3/TalkingRobots-HenryMarkram.mp3