matt: is there a name for the symbol register you refer to in both bees and
humans? i would like to read more

honk honk

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 2:33 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 2:09 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Confabulation Theory that's interesting thanks for posting I heard about
> that long ago. I'm always researching how thinking works across species
> even insects and what makes human cognition different.
> 
> Insect brains have no long term memory. Nor are they capable of
> reinforcement learning, a prerequisite for qualia or feelings of pain
> or pleasure. Everything they know was encoded in their DNA at birth,
> so their only learning mechanism is evolution. Insect genome sizes are
> around 500 Mb, or 1/6 the size of the human genome.
> 
> Bees need about 10 bits of short term memory to encode the position of
> pollen to communicate back to their hive. Human short term memory is
> about 100 bits of symbolic information.
> 
> --
> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected]

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