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    "title": "Why Build a Virtual Brain?\nLarge-scale Neural Simulations as Test-bed for Artificial Computing Systems",
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    "abstract": "Despite the impressive amount of financial resources invested\nin carrying out large-scale brain simulations, it is\ncontroversial what the payoffs are of pursuing this project.\nThe present paper argues that in some cases, from designing,\nbuilding, and running a large-scale neural simulation,\nscientists acquire useful knowledge about the computational\nperformance of the simulating system, rather than about the\nneurobiological system represented in the simulation. What\nthis means, why it is not a trivial lesson, and how it advances\nthe literature on the epistemology of computer simulation are\nthe three preoccupations addressed by the paper",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Large-scale neural simulations; epistemology of\ncomputer simulation; target-directed modeling; neuromorphic\ntechnologies"
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    "section": "Papers",
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        {
            "first_name": "Matteo",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Colombo",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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