"To write about models of the brain before the brain is fully understood is a delicate matter. Very detailed models of the neural circuitry risk losing track of the task the brain is trying to solve. At the other extreme, models that represent cognitive constructs can be so abstract that they lose all relationship to neurobiology. An Introduction to Natural Computation takes the middle ground and stresses the computational task while staying near the neurobiology."
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Dana H. Ballard
Dana Harry Ballard (October 15 1946– November 3 2022) was a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin and formerly with the University of Rochester.
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