We've had multiple days of great talks and conversations, and lots of walks. We've heard about evolving computer programs to become replicators and machine learning programs, evolving self-organising developmental pathways, song learning in zebra finches, navigation and learning "place" maps (when you move to a different room, you switch to a different mental map; might that be why you forget why you moved to the new room?), computing with spikes, future neuromorphic hardware, making brain-like circuits with very simple components (resistors, capacitors, batteries and memristors), a mnemonic for understanding the effect of different operations and memories (if one bit is a 1 ft box, then an adder is a room, a multiplier is the whole hotel, the closest memory cache is down on the sea shore, DRAM is Corsica, a hard drive is in Rome, and the cloud is on Jupiter!). Today the focus was on robots with neuromorphic brains, and the key role played by the environment.
May brain is full to overflowing, and we've still got a couple of days to go! To decompress a bit, I went for a walk along a costal path. Low rocky cliffs, with a few beaches scattered along the length.
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| some of the coves are sandy; this one is splendidly rocky |
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