Mathematical Neuroscience and The Spirit

[oanghelidi]

Honestly, how can you make an assertion that consciousness is separate from the brain when you can't even decide what consciousness is?

It is basic scientific practice to use inversion. If something is not true prove that is false, if something is true prove that is not false.

And you have no way to define consciousness... You have to figure out what you are studying before you study it.

I know precisely what I am studying. In the case of consciousness the situation is not that simple.

BTW, your journals weren't rejected because they didn't come from universities. They were rejected because you are a completely certifiable nutcase with no support for your conclusions that are based on poorly developed hypotheses and a fundamental misunderstanding of the scientific method.

If my mind was full of errors do you really think that I could have done what I did? And also have you wondered what compelled Markram to add me in that article? I mean he could have mentioned hundreds of other brain simulations. He could have said that my simulation is at fault, not Modha's (IBM guy). But no, he said that I am using the Hodgkin-Huxley equations (beside countless others) which are much better than Modha's simulation, and for good reasons. Read the article again.

Plus Markram is saying: "Try doing it on a GRID or on desktops". Do you know why? Because he wanted to do it with his group but eventually he changed his mind. On supercomputers where all the nodes / computers are the same it is easy to run simulations. On grid or distributed computing project it is much harder. It is a whole lot more work. Given that a brain simulation can have anywhere between a thousand to hundreds of millions of differential equations and anywhere between tens to thousands of theoretical models, I don't think that most of you have the full understanding for that complexity. If you run sub-particle simulations, that may be somewhat comparable.

Now if Markram would be the only guy that I spoke with since my main findings that wouldn't be much. I also spoke with Erik de Schutter, the former president of Organization of Computational Neuroscience. I told him that I was interested to build a neuromorphic architecture (specialized ASIC chips for neural simulations) and that he could have used it to test some of their models on this platform, but his concern was that I might work on some other research, and I would not be able to support the platform for them. I guess working in various fields and on all kinds of problems, makes me unstable for some repetitive tasks. Perhaps someone should check with Erik that he said that too.

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Well... I must go now, it is getting late...