Igor Aleksander

1937– · emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Imperial College London.

Topics: artificial intelligence

• Machine consciousness refers to attempts by those who design and analyse informational machines to apply their methods to various ways of understanding consciousness and to examine the possible role of consciousness in informational machines.

  — Igor Aleksander

• Neural Computing is the study of networks of adaptable nodes which through a process of learning from task examples, store experiential knowledge and make it available for use.

  — Igor Aleksander

• An opportunity for cybernetics to change the course of the philosophy of mind was missed when intentionality was misinterpreted as "the providing of coded knowledge".

  — Igor Aleksander