Re: [agi] Clues to the Mind: What do you think is the reason for selective attention

I found proof of my interpretation in the following paper also. It concludes that we can only keep track of 3 or 4 objects in detail at a time.(something like that) http://www.pni.princeton.edu/conte/pdfs/project2/Proj2Pub8anne.pdf It says: For explicit visual working memory, object tokens are

[agi] Clues to the Mind: What do you think is the reason for selective attention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo Can anyone suggest why our brains exhibit this phenomenon? cheers, Deepak --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your

Re: [agi] Clues to the Mind: What do you think is the reason for selective attention

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:07 PM, deepakjnath deepakjn...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo Can anyone suggest why our brains exhibit this phenomenon? May I flag this as AGI irrelevant? The brain at a non-AGI task is not that interesting for AGI, me thinks. Plus, we

Re: [agi] Clues to the Mind: What do you think is the reason for selective attention

Thanks Dave, its very interesting. This gives us more clues in to how the brain compresses and uses the relevant information while neglecting the irrelevant information. But as Anast has demonstrated, the brain does need priming inorder to decide what is relevant and irrelevant. :) Cheers, Deepak