Neurobiology

• Why look at neurobiology?

  • Animal brains solve problems that we want to solve
    • Speech understanding, vision, learning, etc.
  • Neurobiology provides a model for intelligence and learning
    • Artificial neural networks, etc.
  • We can learn engineering lessons from neurobiology
    • Parallel computation, graceful degradation, etc.

• More importantly...

  • Animal brains and digital computers are the only successful, general purpose computing machines that we know of

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