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Fuller, Steve (2019) The brain as artificial intelligence : prospecting the frontiers of neuroscience. AI & SOCIETY, 34 . pp. 825-833. doi:10.1007/s00146-018-0820-1 ISSN 0951-5666.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0820-1
Abstract
This article explores the proposition that the brain, normally seen as an organ of the human body, should be understood as a biologically based form of artificial intelligence, in the course of which the case is made for a new kind of ‘brain exceptionalism’. After noting that such a view was generally assumed by the founders of AI in the 1950s, the argument proceeds by drawing on the distinction between science—in this case neuroscience—adopting a ‘telescopic’ or a ‘microscopic’ orientation to reality, depending on how it regards its characteristic investigative technologies. The paper concludes by recommending a ‘microscopic’ yet non-reductionist research agenda for neuroscience, in which the brain is seen as an underutilised organ whose energy efficiency is likely to outstrip that of the most powerful supercomputers for the foreseeable future.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QP Physiology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Artificial intelligence, Neurosciences -- Philosophy, Brain -- Philosophy, Reductionism | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | AI & SOCIETY | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0951-5666 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 825-833 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s00146-018-0820-1 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 April 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 April 2018 | ||||||||
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