Transvision 2010 ASIM Experts: I am a 25 Watt bio-computer. What are the hacks that make us who we are?, by Randal A. Koene, October 24, 2010

Randal Koene will speak at Transvision 2010 on October 24, 2010, in the session between 3pm and 5pm CET (live-streamed in Teleplace, 6am-8am PST, 9-11am EST, 2pm-4pm UK).

I am a 25 Watt bio-computer. What are the hacks that make us who we are?

Randal A. Koene - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_A._Koene

Abstract: Many of us would like to transfer the mind to a machine, or we would like to create general machine intelligence.

I will discuss several of the mechanisms that implement some of the most significant functions of the mind.

Sensing, acting, learning, our experience in time and intelligent thought, in their general and theoretical form present an immense computational burden.

The neuroscientific insights at the core of the computational models I present reveal to us how our dearest emergent capabilities can be achieved by feasible functions in a 25 Watt bio-computer.

Randal Koene is one of the two co-founders of carboncopies. He is also a member of the experts group that was convened at Oxford University in 2007 to create a first roadmap toward whole brain emulation. For more than a decade, Randal Koene has been a driving force behind organized and structured efforts towards ASIM, "mind uploading" (minduploading.org), and whole brain emulation (a term he coined in the early years of the Mind Uploading Research Group).

Randal Koene is now the head of Analysis at nanotechnology company Halcyon Molecular in Silicon Valley. He has previously directed neural engineering efforts at the European research organization Tecnalia, following an academic career at the Center for Memory and Brain of Boston University. Randal Koene earned his Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience at McGill University, and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Information Theory at Delft University of Technology, after studying Physics at the University of Amsterdam.

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Article announcing the talk: http://transvision2010.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/transvision-2010-presentation-by-randal-a-koene/