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by waveforms 2206 days ago
The late Dr. Gerald M. Edelman (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) had a fascinating theory he called "Neural Darwinism" that relied upon "reentrant mapping" he insisted was not feedback. He had a lab that formulated his ideas into software and a robot called Darwin 4. Does anyone here know what happened to that software? Is it described in detail anywhere? The following is an unflattering but useful discussion of Edelman's robot https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/my-testy-en...
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I have not heard of this one but there's a similar robotics implementation of a network based on the connectome (neural circuit wiring diagram) of C. Elegans brains(the only complete connectome we have so far). Its still in preliminary phase of doing cool stuff though but the idea is interesting.