{"id":55,"date":"2022-04-03T21:44:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.0.204\/www\/php8\/kisc\/wp_trial\/cinet_wp\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T02:44:37","slug":"shigeru-kitazawa-director-of-cinet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/research\/shigeru-kitazawa-director-of-cinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Shigeru Kitazawa, Director of CiNet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-container-4 wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-container-3 wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:55%\">\n<h3>\u201cOmoroi\u201c research from Osaka<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>CiNet is an abbreviation for \u201cCenter for Information and Neural Networks\u201d.The center aims at conducting \u201comoroi\u201d (Osaka dialect for unique and interesting) research that unifies information and brain sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Descartes, a French philosopher of the 17th century, dissected the brain in great detail and concluded that our mind \u201cwill have its chief seat in the brain.\u201d How does our mind reside in the brain? Shannon, the genius of the 20th century who created the theory of information, wrote, \u201csemantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information without meaning seems meaningless to me, but it was only by ignoring the meaning and focusing on the \u201cnumber\u201d of messages that he successfully founded the information communication theory, which evolved machines for telecommunications from telegraph, telephone to the modern smartphone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:45%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/635f82ae274bfb4f262d14abffa2b2e9.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth\u00a0noting here that it is our mind\u00a0that restores the meaning of information. We will reveal how the brain recovers the meaning of information that Shannon discarded. Further, we will give an answer to the ultimate question posed by Descartes: \u201cHow could the mind reside in the machinery of the brain?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our ultimate goal is to create a CiNet Brain, an artificial brain with a \u201cheart\u201d that can see, hear, feel, and care for others. Don\u2019t miss \u201cOmoroi\u201d research coming from Osaka, Japan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 1, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOmoroi\u201c research from Osaka CiNet is an abbreviation for \u201cCenter for Information and Neural Networks\u201d.The cen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2399,"menu_order":110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/1852"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}