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Credit: Brainx3.com, SPECS lab. Thanks to the so-called deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms inspired by the brain, machines can match human performance in perception and language recognition and even outperform humans in certain tasks. But do these synthetic biologically inspired systems learn in the same way that we do? According to a new article by first author Dr. Diogo Santos-Pata from the Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems lab (SPECS) at IBEC led by ICREA Professor Paul Verschure, in collaboration with Prof. Ivan Soltesz at Stanford University, the mechanism of autonomous learning underlying these AI systems reflects nature more closely than previously thought. With their hypothesis and model, these scientists offer new insights into how we learn and store memories. ....
E-Mail Dr. Sabrina Coninx from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Dr. Peter Stilwell from McGill University, Canada, have investigated how philosophical approaches can be used to think in new ways about pain and its management. The researchers advocate not merely reducing chronic pain management to searching and treating underlying physical changes but instead adopting an approach that focuses on the person as a whole. Their work was published online in the journal Synthese on 15 April 2021. It is not currently possible to treat chronic pain effectively in many cases. This has encouraged researchers from various disciplines to consider new approaches to pain and its management over recent years. Pain research and clinical practice do not take place in a vacuum, but instead involve implicit assumptions regarding what pain is and how it can be treated, says Sabrina Coninx, research assistant at the Bochum research training group Situated Cognition. Our aim is to shed l ....
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Credit: Lehigh University Roslyn Weiss, professor of philosophy at Lehigh University, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the 2021 year. She is among 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists to receive this year s award. An expert in ancient philosophy, Weiss is recognized by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for her work on Plato. Her current project, for which she was awarded the fellowship, focuses on the first book of Plato s Republic. Here Socrates, in his idiosyncratic way, tries to get his interlocutors to appreciate that being just is life-enhancing, that, even though it is true that just people finish last, nevertheless, there is no life as good as the just one, explains Weiss. ....
E-Mail (Bergen, Norway): Today, the Holberg Prize one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology named American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum as its 2021 Laureate. Nussbaum is the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She will receive the award of NOK 6,000,000 (approx. EUR 585,000 / USD 705,000) during a 9 June ceremony at the University of Bergen, Norway, provided travel restrictions allow for it. Nussbaum is one of the most well-known and productive philosophers writing today, and her academic career spans more than four and a half decades. Her research interests include ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of literature, feminism, and ethics, as well as animal rights. Nussbaum has also given significant scholarly contributions to fields such as legal studies, economics, educatio ....