Agree it was a bit wooly. I'm sure Tufton could have done better! Greenfield's points which stuck in my mind were her emphasising caution in extrapolating from molecule to society in one leap ( fair enough) and her enthusiasm for the increasing role of neural plasticity. She was also fairly Penrose-ist ( as in the emperor's new mind) in arguing that the brain is not a machine.
At least it introduced me to the idea of streaming a radio 4 prog from the BBC website. Wonder if R2 site still has the second programme about the Jam from a few weeks back???
Meanwhile
The Connectionist Models of Cognitive, Affective, Brain, and Behavioral Disorders website is at http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/disordermodels/ if anyone is interested.
Chris
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Chris Burton, [log in to unmask] on 23/05/2002
On Wed, 22 May 2002 07:47:57 +0100, Dan Munday wrote:
>Dear All
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>I expect some of you will have heard Melvin Bragg's "In our time"
>last Thursday am discussing Chaos and Complexity. It was an
>interesting discussion, although it got abit lost in places, I
>think. I don't think I have ever heard Melvin Bragg so confused.
>Susan Greenfield was one of the participants and I was left thinking
>that it would be interesting to hear more about complexity and the
>brain. I don't suppose any of the Tuftonite's know her and could
>invite her to speak do they? :-J
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>The programme is on the BBC radio 4 website so you can listen to it
>on line for the next week or so there if interested.
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>Dan
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