5: Neural Nets and Artificial Intelligence

Computational neuroscience and neural nets, etc. History and development of the artificial neuron. Is an artificial intelligence/consciousness possible? Can we build an intelligent or a conscious machine?

Go to Neural Networks and the Computational Brain

6: Cybernetics, Organisation and Complexity, and the cultural milieu.

Organisation and complexity. Cybernetics, feedback. Culture, language and the development process, the maturation of the brain. Knowledge as a modelling process. Hierarchical systems and organisation paradigms.

Go to On Complexly Organised Systems and Consciousness

Also a transcript of a talk by Daniel Miller who is a therapist who considers that it is important to know how therapy might alter the physiology.

see Daniel Miller: "Organic Process Therapy"