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Neural Assemblies

An Alternative Approach to Artificial Intelligence

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  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. Günther Palm

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für Biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen 1, Germany

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Part of the book series: Studies of Brain Function (BRAIN FUNCTION, volume 7)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 1-6

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The Flow of Information

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 8-14

    3. Thinking as Seen from Within and from Without

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 15-18

    4. How to Build Well-Behaving Machines

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 19-27

    5. Organizations, Algorithms, and Flow Diagrams

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 28-35

    6. The Improved Matchbox Algorithm

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      Pages 36-44

    7. The Survival Algorithm as a Model of an Animal

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 45-48

    8. Specifying the Survival Algorithm

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 49-57

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. The Anatomy of the Cortical Connectivity

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 60-86

    3. The Visual Input to the Cortex

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 87-91

    4. Changes in the Cortex with Learning

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 92-103

    5. From Neural Dynamics to Cell Assemblies

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 104-116

    6. Introspection and the Rules of Threshold Control

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 117-124

    7. Further Speculations

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 125-134

    8. Men, Monkeys, and Machines

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 135-139

    9. Why All These Speculations?

      • Günther Palm
      Pages 140-146

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 147-246
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About this book

You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it. When I am asked about my profession, I have two ways of answering. If I want a short discussion, I say that I am a mathematician; if I want a long discussion, I say that I try to understand how the human brain works. A long discussion often leads to further questions: What does it mean to understand "how the brain works"? Does it help to be trained in mathematics when you try to understand the brain, and what kind of mathematics can help? What makes a mathematician turn into a neuroscientist? This may lead into a metascientific discussion which I do not like par­ ticularly because it is usually too far off the ground. In this book I take quite a different approach. I just start explaining how I think the brain works. In the course of this explanation my answers to the above questions will become clear to the reader, and he will perhaps learn some facts about the brain and get some insight into the construc­ tions of artificial intelligence.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen 1, Germany

    Günther Palm

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neural Assemblies

  • Book Subtitle: An Alternative Approach to Artificial Intelligence

  • Editors: Günther Palm

  • Series Title: Studies of Brain Function

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81792-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1982

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-81792-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-5742

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 248

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Neurosciences

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