An NME is not an enemy:
Neuromorphic Engineers try to apply our understanding of how the brain processes information to build AI systems that are hardware-based, that can adapt and learn, control robots, provide neural prostheses, and contribute to the understanding of the brain and mind through modeling.
My General Interest Areas:
Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, Fundamental Physics, and Electronic System Design Engineering.
My Specific Background and Interests:
In retirement, I have a focus on the field of Consciousness Studies, specifically Panpsychism and its relatives. I have worked on neuromorphic hardware and software systems that scale. I have a long-standing interest in unsupervised learning of conceptual hierarchies, and reasoning via associative memory enabling analogy and metaphor. I have also worked on teams for brain-machine interfaces (BMI), EEG/MEG and fMRI signal processing software, in-ear EEG data acquisition systems, and central/obstructive sleep apnea detection. I also worked in semiconductor test systems, and in IEEE data acquisition systems standards for high energy physics. My LinkedIn page is here.
My Recent Employment:
I am a retired Research Engineer from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) where I worked in the lab of Dr. Gert Cauwenberghs (ISN.ucsd.edu), and in the Institute for Neural Computation (INC.ucsd.edu) where I continue as an Associate member at INC. I am a Life Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the Cognitive Science Society. (CSS)
My Education:
M.S. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) with an AI/NN focus. B.A. Degree from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) with a dual major in Psychology and Philosophy with a broad focus on the metaphysics of mind and consciousness and the question of free will.
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FYI:
A paradigm shift is needed in science to understand how the conscious mind and the natural world are unified without eliminativism or idealism. Consciousness is a universal self-similar process yielding UNiversal Correlates of Consciousness, the UNCC. So my slogan is…
