On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, William Pearson wrote: ) I think the brains programs have the ability to protect their own ) storage from interference from other programs. The architecture will ) only allow programs that have proven themselves better* to be able to ) override this protection on other programs if they request it. ) ) If you look at the brain it is fundamentally distributed and messy. To ) stop errors propagating as they do in stored program architectures you ) need something more decentralised than the current attempted ) dictatorial kernel control.
This is only partially true, and mainly only for the neocortex, right? For example, removing small parts of the brainstem result in coma. ) The value becomes in the architecture a fungible, distributable, but ) conserved, resource. Analogous to money, although when used to ) overwrite something it is removed dependent upon hoe useful the ) program overwritten was. The outputting programs pass it back to the ) programs that have given them they information they needed to output, ) whether that information is from long term memory or processed from ) the environment. These second tier programs pass it further back. ) However the method of determining who gets the credit doesn't have to ) always be a simplistic function, they can have heuristics on how to ) distribute the utility based on the information they get from each of ) its partners. As these heuristics are just part of each program they ) can change as well. Are there elaborations (or a general name that I could look up) on this theory--sounds good? For example, you're referring to multiple tiers of organization, which sound like larger scale organizations that maybe have been further discussed elsewhere? It sounds like there are intricate dependency networks that must be maintained, for starters. A lot of supervision and support code that does this--or is that evolved in the system also? -- Bo ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
