Been a bit quiet on the spacecog front lately - i blame facebook, moving to london, and British Telecom. Now then, back on message...
Bechtel and Abrahamsen's "Connectionism and the Mind" manages to consider connectionism both historically/up-to-the-present (place in cognitive science etc), and philosophically. Also the widest ranging discussion of connectionism i've read. Excellent.
Now working through Haikonen's "Robot Brains". Not that he is a robot or anything. Maybe a biobot, like the rest of us. Anyway I like this book - a synthetic approach to machine cognition; lots of clear diagrams and explanations of his associative mechanisms; considers many aspects of cognition; and has some sense of the philosophical issues that surround his chosen subject. More detail, and more interesting focus overall than in his 2003 book (<-which is maybe more suitable for Humanities faculty undergraduates reading around a new subject).
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Give us some news & pics from London, will ya dear Murmeli & Wife!
Well I suppose you are using Facebook or some other obnoxious "community" tool or whatever... Not me tho! Socialize to your heart's content! (Sulking...)
Yours,
2 Bunnies from Krunikka
Ok Otto, I will give you some news and pics, on the Web1.0 technology we call email... once i find your email address, now then let's have a look...
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