BICA

CORE DEFINITION

Biologically inspired cognitive architectures are attempts to build artificial minds by copying how the brain is organised rather than by scaling up statistical learning alone. Work in this area draws on neuroscience for mechanisms such as spiking neurons, working memory and associative recall, then maps them onto computational modules and assembles them into a whole architecture. The expectation is that structural fidelity yields more general and more efficient intelligence than pure data-driven approaches. The field is explicitly a long-term research programme, and results so far are partial.