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Neural Networks

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Publication date9/04/2024
Place of PublicationMinneapolis
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
Number of pages122
ISBN (electronic)9783957960832
ISBN (print)9781517916695
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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NameIn Search of Media
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press

Abstract

Neural Networks reconstructs situated practices, social histories, mediating techniques, and ontological assumptions that inform the computational project of the same name. If so-called machine learning comprises a statistical approach to pattern extraction, then neural networks can be defined as a biologically inspired model that relies on probabilistically weighted neuron-like units to identify such patterns. Far from signaling the ultimate convergence of human and machine intelligence, however, neural networks highlight the technologization of neurophysiology that characterizes virtually all strands of neuroscientific and AI research of the past century. Taking this traffic as its starting point, this volume explores how cognition came to be constructed as essentially computational in nature, to the point of underwriting a technologized view of human biology, psychology, and sociability, and how countermovements provide resources for thinking otherwise.