Design patterns for a Black Box Brain?

Published 20/10/03 By Bill Softky on "The Register"

The bad news is that biologists are very far from figuring out the grand mystery of the brain. The good news is that software engineers might get there first. [...] What we desperately need - and what software and signal processing can help us with - is a theory of what a brain ought to do. A human brain is a black box with a million wires coming in and half a million going out; a rat's brain is smaller, with fewer wires, but faces the same basic signal-processing problems: what kind of input patterns can it expect, and how can it deal with them? Click for more...

[G.K Comment]: Without a doubt, the most interesting article I have ever read. It is exactly what my favourite research topic is all about... i.e. using software to create a human-like brain. Science finction? ...well it's only 2 years away I say. Let's see...