An episode is captured in the brain in something like the form of a movie. And
to understand how the brain can associate one sub-episode to another - and a
particular episode in time to a comparable episode at another time - you have
to understand *montage* and the art of cutting movies.
That is to say, how a) particular shots and scenes/sequences of action are cut
from a person's total life stream, and
b) how given shots and scenes, once chosen, can then be recut and reassembled,
and fitted together
We are talking here about the art and psychology of imaginative ASSOCIATION -
**fitting** images together.
This is totally different from logic, where one logical variable inevitably
FOLLOWS from another.
A movie sequence might start with a scene of a gay party, cut to a scene of a
fight at the party, cut to a scene of the party now almost empty with a few
tired stragglers ...
"the party started great, but then there was this big fight, and practically
everyone left in a hurry, and it ended miserably"
Language really follows sequences of association - as opposed to any logic.
If you think you can express episodes in the form of some logical database, or
Schank-like scripts, you're a dead man.
Episodes, and how the brain handles episodes, are the expression of awesome
"CGI" power on the part of the brain - still way beyond our computational
comprehension, and requiring a whole new metacognitive medium of analysis.
From: Piaget Modeler
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:17 PM
To: AGI
Subject: [agi] Episodes
Assume we are continuously feeding sensory input into a cognitive system,
and the cognitive system is continuously performing actions (and non-actions).
Can anyone succinctly describe what an episode is?
When does one episode start and end, and when does another begin?
Do they overlap?
I have a working theory but I'd like to get feedback.
Cheers!
~PM.
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