![I am taking Dr. Terrence Sejnowski’s computational neurobiology course this quarter and the required text is The Computational Brain by Churchland and Sejnowski. I am only on chapter 2, but the book so far is a witty fusion of philosophy and biology. When I finish, I promise I’ll write something useful about it.
”[…] emergent properties are high level effects that depend on lower level phenomena in some systematic way. Turning the hypothesis around to its negative version, it is highly improbable that emergent properties are are properties that cannot be explained by low level properties (Popper 1959), or that they are in some sense irreducible […]” (the Computational Brain pg.3)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l08eyvS4pe1qatecqo1_400.jpg)
I am taking Dr. Terrence Sejnowski’s computational neurobiology course this quarter and the required text is The Computational Brain by Churchland and Sejnowski. I am only on chapter 2, but the book so far is a witty fusion of philosophy and biology. When I finish, I promise I’ll write something useful about it.
”[…] emergent properties are high level effects that depend on lower level phenomena in some systematic way. Turning the hypothesis around to its negative version, it is highly improbable that emergent properties are are properties that cannot be explained by low level properties (Popper 1959), or that they are in some sense irreducible […]” (the Computational Brain pg.3)
