Kenneth Miller Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Biology, Columbia University Kenneth Miller is the Peter Taylor Professor of Neuroscience, co-Director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and co-Director of the Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Reed College, his M.S. and Ph.D. (with distinction) from Stanford University, and completed his postdoctoral work at UCSF and Caltech. He is a founding member of the editorial board of Journal of Computational Neuroscience and has served as faculty for many years at various summer schools in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. He received the Swartz Prize in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience given by the Society for Neuroscience, and has also been recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Searle Scholar’s Award, and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Participant In: What Can Mathematics Teach Us About Mind/Brain? Saturday, September 15th 2:30 - 4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Philosophy meets mathematics meets neuroscience in this roundtable investigating how cutting-edge mathematical models are elucidating the computational rules encoding brain functions and the implications for a deeper understanding of mind. Free and open to the public. Biology of Mind Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:30-4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » What is mind? Is it a property attributable to biological functionality alone, and, in particular, arising from the morphology of the mammalian brain and/or the influence of that animal’s body? How far down the evolutionary scale can we apply terms like cognition, consciousness, and intelligence? Are we capable of engineering artificial minds? Mind Matters: Past, Present, and Future Saturday, February 10th, 2018, 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » From Xenophanes’ 6th c. BCE theory of divine intellection imbuing, comprehending, and organizing the cosmos, through Nicholas of Cusa’s 15th c. definition of mind as “the limit and measure of all things,” through Hume and his Enlightenment kin’s aspiration to be the “Newton of the mind,” to the naturalized explanations of contemporary cognitive science, Western… read more » Math models Mind 2:30 on Saturday, January 19th, 2019 Past Event Watch the video » If a biologist were asked for a single word that would appropriately point to the essence and substance of biology, the word might be Life. It stands for the essential unity of that subject despite the enormous range of different interests of biologists—from proteins to the behavior of elephants to medical applications. Is there an… read more » Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing May 11th, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » “The Aleph was probably two to three centimeters in diameter, but universal space was contained inside it . . .” – JL Borges Our eyes move. They rove and they direct attention. Indeed, vision and our ability to focus attention more generally are intimately intertwined. And this hybrid faculty of vision/attention has been extended as… read more »
What Can Mathematics Teach Us About Mind/Brain? Saturday, September 15th 2:30 - 4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » Philosophy meets mathematics meets neuroscience in this roundtable investigating how cutting-edge mathematical models are elucidating the computational rules encoding brain functions and the implications for a deeper understanding of mind. Free and open to the public.
Biology of Mind Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:30-4:30PM Past Event Watch the video » What is mind? Is it a property attributable to biological functionality alone, and, in particular, arising from the morphology of the mammalian brain and/or the influence of that animal’s body? How far down the evolutionary scale can we apply terms like cognition, consciousness, and intelligence? Are we capable of engineering artificial minds?
Mind Matters: Past, Present, and Future Saturday, February 10th, 2018, 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » From Xenophanes’ 6th c. BCE theory of divine intellection imbuing, comprehending, and organizing the cosmos, through Nicholas of Cusa’s 15th c. definition of mind as “the limit and measure of all things,” through Hume and his Enlightenment kin’s aspiration to be the “Newton of the mind,” to the naturalized explanations of contemporary cognitive science, Western… read more »
Math models Mind 2:30 on Saturday, January 19th, 2019 Past Event Watch the video » If a biologist were asked for a single word that would appropriately point to the essence and substance of biology, the word might be Life. It stands for the essential unity of that subject despite the enormous range of different interests of biologists—from proteins to the behavior of elephants to medical applications. Is there an… read more »
Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing May 11th, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » “The Aleph was probably two to three centimeters in diameter, but universal space was contained inside it . . .” – JL Borges Our eyes move. They rove and they direct attention. Indeed, vision and our ability to focus attention more generally are intimately intertwined. And this hybrid faculty of vision/attention has been extended as… read more »