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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Notes Toward A Theory Of Artificial Sentience

Brian J. Flanagan

Published Feb 19, 1988• 1 citation
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Abstract

An identification of the hidden variables of quantum mechanics ( 1) is made. A theory embodying a unitary description of mind and matter is sketched. A. novel interpretation of neural network architecture & function is formulated.
DOI
10.1117/12.942752

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