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Here's me giving a 30 minute talk [http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/brains-r-us-2/tony-bell Levels, Time and Models] about Levels in Biology. <br>
Here's me giving a 30 minute talk [http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/brains-r-us-2/tony-bell Levels, Time and Models] about Levels in Biology. <br>
Here's me giving a 85 minute talk [http://vimeo.com/5812603 Emergence and Submergence in the Nervous System].
Here's me giving a 85 minute talk [http://vimeo.com/5812603 Emergence and Submergence in the Nervous System]. <br>
(The production on the latter is not so good, so here are the [slides]. Also, a few minutes in the audio drastically improves.)


What am I doing? If you watch either of these you will see.
What am I doing? If you watch either of these you will see.

Revision as of 08:21, 9 September 2010

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Anthony J. Bell Ph.D.
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
UC Berkeley
132 Barker, MC #3190
Berkeley, CA 94720-3190
phone (415) 699 6502
fax (510) 643-4952
tbell@berkeley.edu

Research Interest

It's 2010.

Here's my Salk web-page from way back.

Here's me giving a 30 minute talk Levels, Time and Models about Levels in Biology.
Here's me giving a 85 minute talk Emergence and Submergence in the Nervous System.
(The production on the latter is not so good, so here are the [slides]. Also, a few minutes in the audio drastically improves.)

What am I doing? If you watch either of these you will see.

There are 3 steps to uniting physics, biology and machine learning:

(1) Solve the time series density estimation problem

(2) Solve the sensory-motor problem

(3) Solve the levels problem

The clues to (2) and (3) lie in (1).
I am working on (1) and I think I've just about got it.

And unfortunately there's no way around it: we are going to have to absorb and augment the emerging non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and (cough) quantum theory.

Here's a [pdf paper that explains what I was thinking up till about 2008.