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In article <1992Aug6.194634.17166@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> 
rwmurphr@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert W Murphree) writes:
 > I apologize for shooting my mouth off.
No need to apologize, just give me some references!  Speculation is
fine as long as there's a basis for it.

 >A recent reference is:
 >IEEE transactions on Robotics and Automation
 >June 1992, p 293-303.
 >"Robustness of a distributed Neural network controller for locomotion
 >in a hexapod robot"
 >by Hillel J. Chiel, Randall D. Beer, Roger E. Quinn and Kenneth S.
 >Espenscied.  all at Case Western Reserve, Clevland Ohio.
This is in the right vein, as far as I'm concerned.  Note too that
it's locomotion with only a very crude "proprioceptive" sensing
scheme, and no other sensing, so it's still just a start.

 >I bow to your greater knowledge.
Eh?  Just because I threw in some references?

 >Of course neruscience gives us insight into animal behavior.  But do  
 >these insights amount to simulation?  Where you could take a film 
 >of the critter and compare it to your simulation?
Not necessarily a film - perhaps a set of principles governing a
particular network of neurons, maybe testable at the level of membrane
potentials, cell stimulation, or arm movement.

 >Ron Brooks had some article I never read entitled "the whole iguana"
 >which talked about trying to simulate something really complex like
 >a lizard.
*Ron* Brooks?
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