davidgamez.eu

Welcome! This website covers everything connected with me, David Gamez.

I am currently working with Igor Aleksander at Imperial College, London, on new techniques for analyzing neural networks for information integration.

Last year I passed a PhD on machine consciousness supervised by Professor Owen Holland at the University of Essex, UK. This was carried out as part of the EPSRC-funded CRONOS project to build a conscious robot. My contribution to this project included the development of new techniques for analyzing systems for signs of consciousness and I built a spiking neural simulator that I used to model a neural network that controlled the eye movements of a virtual robot. In my previous job on the IST Safeguard project I worked on agents, anomaly-detection and GOFAI.

My latest book, What We Can Never Know, explores the limits of philosophy and science through studies of perception, time, madness and knowledge. I have also co-edited a collection of essays on the nature of philosophy, What Philosophy Is, and written on the invasion of Iraq, alienation and wisdom.

Over the years I have worked on a number of music projects, my most recent being a MIDI Agent System that dynamically creates music through the interaction of software agents. I was a key member of the breakbeat band Burning Rubber Icons and I have dabbled in film soundtracks.

I have also been involved in various forms of photography, art, film, performance and craft.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments about the material on this site.

Version 2. Last updated 10th November 2009.