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> If cognition is embodied, that raises problems for artificial intelligence. Since computers don’t have bodies, let alone sensations, what are the implications of these findings for their becoming conscious—that is, achieving strong AI? Lakoff is uncompromising: "It kills it." Of Ray Kurzweil’s singularity thesis, he says, "I don’t believe it for a second." Computers can run models of neural processes, he says, but absent bodily experience, those models will never actually be conscious.

Well, then let's simulate the body as well once we got the brain right.

The workflow proposed in the first link looks quite interesting: Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dUkyn_fZA

And here are some more reviews, opinions, advices and experiences I just stumbled upon:

http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1273

http://orgmode.org/talks.html

How do they compare with Google Loon?

http://www.google.de/loon/

I wonder whether our agreement upon the ugliness of Fourier artifacts (such as ringing) stems from a learned distaste for low quality image and video compression.

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by A. D. Aleksandrov et al.

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-Do...