Mike, Good response. I like your movie editing analogy. As far as representation with a database or with scripts, we can take baby steps by building an initial Episodic Memory component, which does 0.01% of what you just suggested, and then incrementally improve it. Any other thoughts?
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] Episodes Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:42:12 +0100 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. AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
