What is meant by computation?
What is meant by computation?
From Universal Turing Machines to McCulloch-Pitts and Hopfield associative memory networks, this lecture explains what is meant by computation.
Topics covered in this lesson
- A history of computability: Leibniz, Gödel, Turing. Turing machines
- McCullogh & Pitts calculus
- Von Neumann
- Feature detectors
- Encoding and decoding
- Synaptic logic
- Hopfield networks, attractors
- Biophysical explanations vs computational explanations
- Concluding Q&A (from 42:18)
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Prerequisites
Some knowledge of dynamic systems and attractor dynamics.
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