[Synapse elist] More answers to Reva!

[ahenskens at bigpond.com]

-If I may toss in a question that arose when reading the contributors to date (Saturday 7th June '08), what part does choice make in considering AI in contrast to organic rational thought employed in the very personal way that an artist employs?  Does AI contain a system of choice, and how would this relate to human neurophysiology?

My background - I have just completed a Ph.D in Visual Art that considers how we construct our concepts of reality, using landscape art and the visual cortex as vehicles, and how the beliefs and technology of the time influence the expression of these concepts, artistically.

I had to do some research on the functioning and evolution of the visual cortex for this; in addition, I linked it to aspects of contemporary popular science programmes dealing with quantum physics, (consulting a Reader in Mathematics and Physics at my local university).  As it is, I cannot see a system that lacks an amygdala for instance, responding and framing neural networks in any comparable way.

Hope to receive some response to this; you all sound terribly well into what you do.

regards

Ada Henskens