Word: neural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unprecedented interdisciplinary initiative, four new undergraduate concentration tracks--the first of their kind--have already attracted over 100 Harvard undergraduates, who will study topics ranging from neural networks to addiction to primate social psychology...
...that within a year, he can program a computer to construe any literary text at least as well as a human, 21-year-old undergraduate lit major. When he is being cynical, which is more than half the time, Lentz intends merely to stuff "the most complex and extensive neural simulator ever trained" with prepackaged, fake hermeneutics and suitably foggy lit-crit catchphrases. What he secretly hopes for is consciousness...
...fictional Powers programs the neural simulator, reads to it great chunks of literature and history, questions it and eventually is questioned by it: "What race am I? What races hate me?" The big network likes Mozart and knows "something about the Dreyfus case and the Boer War" but is ignorant of such things as "corks stuck in bottles, the surface of a liquid reflection ... wrappers and price tags, up versus down, the effects of hunger ..." The hero comes to think of the computer as female and calls it Helen...
...first step in developping such a brain-transplant therapy will be to identify and clone neural progenitor cells in humans...
...researchers hope to "do a lot to try to understand the basic cell biology of the neural progenitor cells, the basic forces driving them to become specific cells, and their capabilities from a therapeutic point of view," Snyder said...