2016/05/22

A very interesting article - 
the IP metaphor of how our brain works is going flop as well as ideas of creating the artificial intellect!! Hurrahhh!!!!
Just a passage from it, an important one:


The empty brain by Robert Epstein

Think how difficult this problem is. To understand even the basics of how the brain maintains the human intellect, we might need to know not just the current state of all 86 billion neurons and their 100 trillion interconnections, not just the varying strengths with which they are connected, and not just the states of more than 1,000 proteins that exist at each connection point, but how the moment-to-moment activity of the brain contributes to the integrity of the system. Add to this the uniqueness of each brain, brought about in part because of the uniqueness of each person’s life history, and Kandel’s prediction starts to sound overly optimistic. (In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, the neuroscientist Kenneth Miller suggested it will take ‘centuries’ just to figure out basic neuronal connectivity.)

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

2016/05/03

Day 4

Plenary by Jan Blake

Man, woman, life, love: stories from Africa, the Caribbean, and beyond 

The video can be watched at: 
http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2016/session/plenary-jan-blake

Just loved it, the way Jan was telling these stories is very persuasive, emotional and involving!!!!

ОТКУДА БЕРУТСЯ ДЕТИ Родители сплюнулись, и получилась точная копия - детенок. А говорят, сперматозоиды, яйцеклетки! Слюни! ⠀ Так чт...