Alife approach to find out about brain
Seed magazine has an excellent article on the Blue brain project; a project that has model one cortical column of a rat and plans to simulate the whole brain of a rat + an animat body and then a human brain. The simulation is done to get a model to check results with, to use it for engineering purposes and to understand the brain. Modeling something we don’t know about that much to understand it; doesn’t that sound like an alife approach?
February 18, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I guess the parallel between the concept of artificial life and artificial intelligence had been somewhat apparent from the very beginning. It’s probably because they are both complex systems of unknown origin and nature… When put in such way, all nonlinear complex systems seem to display some disturbingly similar traits to each other, regardless of the nature and scale of the components and the system itself.