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5 papers in the library · 142 citations · publishing 2007-2018
IEEE Spectrum June 21, 2018
I RECENTLY ATTENDED A CONFERENCE by watching live presentations over the Internet. This was a kind of out-of-body experience, as I virtually hovered over the meeting without the visceral interaction of physical attendance. My attention often wavered, and I viewed the entirety through a sometimes unfocused perspective.
IEEE Spectrum May 29, 2017 Christof Koch, Giulio Tononi 8 citations
Imagine that at some time in the not-too-distant future, you've bought a smartphone that comes bundled with a personal digital assistant (PDA) living in the cloud. You assign a sexy female voice to the PDA and give it access to all of your emails, social media accounts, calendar, photo album, contacts, and other bits and flotsam of your digital life. She-for that's how you quickly think of...
IEEE Spectrum May 29, 2017
How many types of nerve cells are in the human brain? "We don't know," says Christof Koch. "Probably thousands." We'll have an answer soon, thanks in part to Koch, who with Giulio Tononi wrote "Can We Quantify Machine Consciousness?," in this issue. As president and chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, in Seattle, Koch oversees a staff of more then 300 people, some...
IEEE Spectrum May 29, 2008 Christof Koch, Giulio Tononi 134 citations
Would you sell your soul on eBay? Right now, of course, you can't. But in some quarters it is taken for granted that within a generation, human beings-including you, if you can hang on for another 30 years or so-will have an alternative to death: being a ghost in a machine. You'll be able to upload your mind-your thoughts, memories, and personality-to a computer. And once you've reduced your...
IEEE Spectrum April 1, 2007 Stephen Cass
This book how people owe their self-awareness to "strange loops." The author believes that any system capable of representing a suite of symbols could develop self-awareness; it doesn't matter if the microlevel of the strange loop is composed of neurons or transistors. The author carries the concept of "strange loops" in self-awareness to the human brain. Examines what happens when someone dies...