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From: Ed Boyden " Sent: Tuesday, December 31. 2013 3:06:13 PM Subject: Re: deception To: Neil Gershenfeld Cc: Judith donath Sebastian Seung < <[email protected]>, Lesley Groff QUINSIOSTIPINIPIOPPIN Feb 8,9 ok for me. Also Feb 23 fine for me. Mar 8,9 is our graduate student interview weekend, but in theory I could leave afternoon of 3/8 and do 3/9. I could do Apr 12, but Apr 13 I have to be back home since my wife is leaving to lecture at Cornell, that afternoon. Best, Ed On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Neil Gershenfeld a wrote: > Since nothing is scheduled yet, let's find a clear weekend that works for > everyone. > I can still do the four options below. > If Ed could would miss Feb 22, how about the other three options for > everyone. > Jeff and I discussed a potential larger focus for the weekend: planning a > build-a-brain project. That of course has many potential meanings, but I > like the challenge, and within that deception would be a subsystem to design > or emerge. My personal interest would be the physical computational > substrate for consciousness. > Neil » Am in SF on the 22nd wrapping up a meeting, but could come over that » afternoon and be there for the 23rd. > > » Ed » » For a Mathematics of Deception weekend retreat in sunnier climes >> » (Jeffs » » island), we could all do Feb 8,9, 22,23, Mar 8,9, Apr 12,13. How are » » those » » options for you? >> >> » » Neil effrey Epstein EFTA_R1_00049378 EFTA01751375 Ed Boyden, Ph. D. Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group Associate Professor and AT&T Chair, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute, Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences Co-Director, MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering New York Stem Cell Foundation-Robertson Investigator and Paul Allen Distinguished Investigator MIT, Room E15.421, 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 email - offic cell fax - sky web - http://syntheticneurobiology.org twitter - EFTA_R1_00049379 EFTA01751376