http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/introduction.html
I predict that the project will fail unless it incorporates PCT.
Ted
Science is the process of eliminating supernatural explanations. - Robert
Park
Yeah, that looks like one of those “we’ll just throw money at a problem and hope that will do it”. A complete waste.
They are trying to model the brain at a very low level of abstraction - single cells and their inner mechanisms. Allegedly, that is because they will study drugs’ effect on the brain. Can’t imagine how they will do it, but, that’s what they say.
Their key assumption is that the brain is a “Bayesian network”, operating and predicting future in a world of uncertainty, which is mainstream in cognitive neuroscience, as far as I can see.
On the bright side, there is still a financial crisis in the EU, they could be shut down soon. 
Adam
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Ted Cloak tcloak@unm.edu wrote:
http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/introduction.html
I predict that the project will fail unless it incorporates PCT.
Ted
Science is the process of eliminating supernatural explanations. - Robert
Park
Do they have a model of what happens after the future is predicted; i.e., how that perception gets mediated into movement of fingers and feet? I bet not.
Ted
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On Behalf Of Adam Matic
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:38 PM:
Yeah, that looks like one of those “we’ll just throw money at a problem and hope that will do it”. A complete waste.
They are trying to model the brain at a very low level of abstraction - single cells and their inner mechanisms. Allegedly, that is because they will study drugs’ effect on the brain. Can’t imagine how they will do it, but, that’s what they say.
Their key assumption is that the brain is a “Bayesian network”, operating and predicting future in a world of uncertainty, which is mainstream in cognitive neuroscience, as far as I can see.
On the bright side, there is still a financial crisis in the EU, they could be shut down soon. 
Adam
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Ted Cloak tcloak@unm.edu wrote:
http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/introduction.html
I predict that the project will fail unless it incorporates PCT.
Ted
Science is the process of eliminating supernatural explanations. - Robert
Park
[From Bill Powers (2013.02.01.1630 MST)]
http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/introduction.htmlI predict that the project will fail unless it incorporates PCT.
Ted
I will not bet against your prediction, Ted. The hardest part of
introducing PCT is dealing with the people who express approval of it but
don’t have any understanding of it.
Best,
Bill P.
PS. If anyone wonders why I keep adding the P to my signature of posts to
CSG net: the reason is simply a sort of in memoriam to Bill
Williams, who died a couple of years ago. I’m not the only Bill connected
to PCT. Bill W. and I had our problems, but I miss him.
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At 01:36 PM 1/31/2013 -0700, Ted Cloak wrote: