Pulling it together

Pulling It All Together

Hundreds of pathways, thousands of cell types, tens of thousands of molecules, megabytes of data, and seemingly infinite biological networks—the study of life has perhaps never been more daunting. What ever happened to the explanation from Miller-Urey’s experiment on life’s origins, involving just four compounds, or the simple (okay, merely seemingly simple) unidirectional flow from DNA/RNA/pro...

Synthesis : Pulling It All Together

Address: 1Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Health Canada, 120 Colonnade Rd, Ottawa, Canada, 2Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, 5804 Fairview Avenue, Vancouver, Canada, 3Centre for Research in Women's Health, 790 Bay St., 7th Floor, Toronto, Canada, 4Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Health Canada, 120 Colonnade Rd, Ottawa, Canada, 5Unive...

“Pulling it All Together” via Psychometric AI

Rather long ago, Newell (1973) wrote a prophetic paper that could serve as a rallying cry for this 2004 symposium: “You Can’t Play 20 Questions with Nature and Win.” A number of those concerned with integrated cognition know of this paper, which helped catalyze both modern-day computational cognitive modeling through cognitive architectures (like ACT-R, Soar, Polyscheme, CLARION, etc.), and AI’...

Pulling It Together: a pre-comprehensive first-year project

“To be playful and serious at the same time is possible, and it defines the ideal mental condition. Absence of dogmatism and prejudice, presence of intellectual curiosity and flexibility, are manifest in the free play of the mind upon a topic. To give the mind this free play is not to encourage toying with a subject, it is to be interested in the unfolding of the subject on its own account, apa...

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