Towards brain programming

This course will introduce a new computational model of the brain, called SPA (for Sensing Processing Acting) currently under development, and a platform implementing it, called Faisca. The ultimate goal of Faisca is to allow for the development of synthetic brains, simulating the human brain in its main functionalities. Faisca is programmed in  BL (for Brain Language). The course will describe the SPA underlying principles, as well the first implementation of BL and Faisca. The model and the platform will be motivated by mapping them to various Cognitive and Neuroscience notions, in particular: the nervous system, the brain, neurons and glial cells. The course will be interactive alternating explanatory lectures with hands-on BL development.

(*) Faisca is being developed as a joint effort of the University of Trento and the University of Minho. We expect to release a first version open source in the spring 2022