The Cognitive Revolution, New AI, and Living Machines

By
NeurotechEU
Difficulty level
Beginner
Speaker
Paul F.M.J. Verschure
Type
Lectures
Video
Duration
2:24:35
Topic
Cognitive neuroinformatics
Cognitive Science
Artificial Intelligence
Computational neuroscience

This lecture covers a lot of post-war developments in the science of the mind, focusing first on the cognitive revolution, and concluding with living machines.

Topics covered in this lesson
  • Miller, Gallanter and Pribram TOTE (Test Operate Test Execute) model
  • Wiener’s cybernetics  
  • McCullough model of the neuron as a cybernetic system
  • Von Neumann’s computer architecture, and the architecture of the mind
  • Rosenblatt’s Perceptron
  • Minsky and Papert on the limitations of perceptrons
  • Newell and Simon’s Physical Symbol Systems hypothesis
  • Functionalism in philosophy
  • Brooks subsumption architecture
  • Braitenberg vehicles
  • Situatedness and emergence
  • Morphological computation
  • Distributed Adaptive Control architecture
  • Living machines
Documents
Compendium (7.57 MB)
Reading Materials - Reinforcement Learning (4.2 MB)
Reading Materials - Newell (1.2 MB)
Reading Materials - Rosenblatt (1.55 MB)
Reading Materials - Braitenberg (426.05 KB)
Reading Materials - Brooks (135.45 KB)
Reading Materials - Von Uexkull (9.09 MB)
Reading Materials - Verschure (347.02 KB)
External links
Link to NeurotechEU
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