{"pk":25454,"title":"Why Build a Virtual Brain?\nLarge-scale Neural Simulations as Test-bed for Artificial Computing Systems","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Large-scale neural simulations; epistemology of\ncomputer simulation; target-directed modeling; neuromorphic\ntechnologies"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8hb8v8xh","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Matteo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Colombo","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25454/galley/15078/download/"}]}