Speaker: Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology at Skidmore College
Speaker: Chris Eliasmith
Recent high-profile brain simulations, including those of the one billion euro Human Brain Project, are very large and, by some measures, complex. However, they do not exhibit interesting behaviours and so are difficult to compare to much of what we know about the brain.
Human creativity operates in many domains, including scientific discovery, technological invention, artistic imagination, and social innovation. Creativity requires cognitive processes such as combining ideas, generating hypotheses, and using analogies. It also requires social processes such as exchanging ideas and transferring emotional evaluations.
Speaker: Mireille E. Broucke