Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category

The Bayesian Brain

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Some time ago there was an interesting article in New Scientist, about new theory on how human brain works. It turns out that high level brain functions can be modeled using Bayesian statistics and the brain in fact uses statistical data from prior experiences to predict the current sensory input. ...

Book Recommendations

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

I'm currently going through a massive pile of books since I've had not that much free time at hand. However, I thought I could share a few of the books I'm reading that I find most interesting at the moment, so here we go. Michael Lockwood: The Labyrinth of Time. This ...