<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><p class="gmail-m_-7077185937403839709gmail-m_-921249872821164857gmail-m_2825358517816514856gmail-m_5665334593080371447m_-3748643693577471394gmail-m_-4404257975496107222gmail-m_-7206066681144029448gmail-m_-5817829815640557222gmail-m_5987474974647831651gmail-m_-4783362384882292594m_6961031835771836416gmail-m_3149180880964055314gmail-m_5803000941478265060gmail-m_3739772758111120207gmail-m_-4374496420704574181gmail-m_-8232014986225864746gmail-m_2118555233517397122gmail-m_-6347337869693432729gmail-m_9103776001042077600gmail-p1" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">When:    </font></font></b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">  Thursday, April 11th at <b>11:00 am</b></font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Where:     </font></font></b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Who:        </font></font></b></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-m_-7077185937403839709gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Christos</span></span> Papadimitriou, Columbia University</span>  <b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> </font></font></b></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Title:        </b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Computation in the Brain</span><b style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(33,33,33)">    </b></div><div class="gmail_default"><p class="gmail-m_-7077185937403839709gmail-m_-921249872821164857gmail-m_2825358517816514856gmail-m_5665334593080371447m_-3748643693577471394gmail-m_-4404257975496107222gmail-m_-7206066681144029448gmail-m_-5817829815640557222gmail-m_-5680779581752768105inbox-inbox-m_2981149214989969629inbox-inbox-p1" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><b>Abstract:</b> <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">How does the brain beget the mind?</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">  </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">How do molecules, cells and synapses effect reasoning, intelligence, language, science?</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">   </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Despite dazzling progress in experimental neuroscience we do not seem to be making progress in the overarching question -- the gap is huge and a completely new approach seems to be required.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">  </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">As Richard Axel recently put it:</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">  </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">"We don't have a logic for the transformation of neural activity into thought."</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">  </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">What kind of formal system would qualify as this "logic"?  I will sketch a possible answer. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">(Joint work with Santosh Vempala, Wolfgang Maass, Larry Abbott, Dan Mitropolsky, and Mike Collins.)</span></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.95px"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:14.95px"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Bio:</b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <span class="gmail-m_-70771859374038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