Talk:Dehaene–Changeux model

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The article should be cleaned to conform to our style guidelines (especially the excessive use of boldface in the sources and references). --Crusio (talk) 09:55, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

the model is a Multi-Agent System and a Swarm of Integrate and Fire Neurons

references and proofs. Saying the model is a neural network and that as such it can't be a Multi Agent Syetem or a Swarm is like saying it is a parallelogram and thus cannot be a square. The DCM is a neural network which is also a MAS and a Swarm, just like a square is also a rhombus. Here are other references about neural networks that are MAS:

Roya Asadi, Norwati Mustapha, Nasir Sulaiman, A Framework For Intelligent Multi Agent System Based Neural Network Classification Model (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2009 [1]
Ying Xu; Mural, R.J.; Einstein, J.R.; Shah, M.B.; Uberbacher, E.C.; GRAIL: a multi-agent neural network system for gene identification Proceedings of the IEEE Oct 1996 84 Issue:10 1544 - 1552 [2]
Yong S. Choi, Suk I. Yoo , Multi-agent learning approach to WWW information retrieval using neural network IUI '99 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces p23 - 30 [3]
Minar, N., R. Burkhart, C. Langton, and M. Askenazi. 1996. The Swarm simulation system: A toolkit for building multi-agent simulations. Working Paper 96-06-042, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe.
K.G. Jolly K.P. Ravindran, R. Vijayakumar, R. Sreerama Kumar, Intelligent decision making in multi-agent robot soccer system through compounded artificial neural networksRobotics and Autonomous Systems Volume 55, Issue 7, 31 July 2007, Pages 589-596 [4]

Besides, the brain at large is a multi-agent system and a swarm of neurons and glial cells... Cheers :--GrandPhilliesFan (talk) 12:08, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's possible to have a MAS containing one or more agents which are neural networks; but individual neurons are not agents. Nor do individual neurons meet the definition of Swarm behaviour. You appear to have misunderstood the literature in that list. I suspect you might perhaps also have misunderstood the Dehaene-Changeux literature, because the phrase "Dehaene-Changeux model" has been used for their Wisconsin card sort model as well as for other work. If those different models are fundamentally the same, the article should justify its title by explaining why. At present the article appears to conflate unrelated ideas, and it could do with attention from an expert. -- 202.124.72.1 (talk) 14:11, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]