Vlad, Re your comment below, I would argue rapid intuitive decision making is fundamental, because that often largely subconscious ability to quickly decide between which of multiple alternatives to focus attention on to include in your behavior is an essential component to much of human thought an behavior.
Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: Vladimir Nesov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:04 AM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] WHAT ARE THE MISSING CONCEPTUAL PIECES IN AGI? On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vlad, > > It is my belief that humans can do intuitive cost/benefit analysis without > deliberation, although many forms of cost/benefit analysis do require > deliberation. > > For example a basketball player often looks around him in a one or two > seconds makes a decision who to throw to, whether to shoot, or whether to > make a move with the ball, based on an intuitive cost/benefit analysis. My > model of the brain is one of massive parallelism, in which many multi-level > patterns are being matched at one time. Thus when a basket ball player > scans around him the various things he sees might activate patterns to > various degress that involve both patterns of success, patterns of failure > and risk associated with various patterns for behaviors, and patterns for > various behaviors could receive varying scores, and the equivalent to the > basil ganglia could select the pattern with the best score for increasing > attention and finally action commitment. > > All this type of intuitive decistion making could be made without anything > approaching what we normally think of as deliberation. > Agreed, but still I wouldn't call such process fundamental. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
