Wednesday, October 16, 2019
8:00 PM -
9:30 PM
Beckman Auditorium
Watson Lecture - Causality: From Aristotle to Zebrafish
Series: Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
What causes what? If correlation does not equal causation, then how can we untangle the "why" behind processes that regulate the brain, the climate, or the economy? And how does this apply to the development of artificial intelligences (AIs)? Eberhardt's lecture will start with a tour of the philosophical foundations of causality and end with the discovery of neural connections in the brains of zebrafish larvae.
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