… engineer neural algorithms to build large- scale brain models, we have been concurrently
developing such methods. Indeed, the same techniques used to build Spaun (called the …

… in numerically simpler insect brains. In Drosophila melanogaster in particular, genetic tools
enable precisely targeted physiology and optogenetics in actively behaving animals. In this …

… We now start to build a framework in which to discuss environmentally driven and be…
We begin by introducing the functional elements on which our argument will build. Figure 3 …

… Understanding the brain requires us to answer both what the brain does, and how it does
it. … I conclude that purely behavioral research is essential for understanding the brain—…

… An enabling technology-such as the brain that we are building-… been a renewed interest in
building experimental mobile robot … it possible for relatively small groups to build serviceable …

… , 2012), describes play as one of the major brain sources of joy, and he says that it is one
of the seven motivational systems inherent in our brains when we are born. Play has its own …

… Can we build a picture of the structure and dynamics of this extraordinary ob ject that can …
features of the brain that make it special, features that challenge the picture of the brain as a …

… Building on recent findings showing that real-life as opposed to controlled experimental …
real-life approach may radically change our understanding of brain and behavior. Therefore, we …

… In particular, this requirement will help to prevent the solution from being a mere verbalistic
explanation', for in the background will be the demand that we build a machine to do these …

The central goal of modern science that evolved during the Enlightenment was the empirical
reduction of uncertainty by experimental inquiry. Although there have been challenges to …