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What Is Meant by Computation?

Difficulty level
Beginner
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Duration
55:27

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)
Prerequisites

Some knowledge of dynamic systems and attractor dynamics.

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