Hi Jim, This reminds me of Self-organised criticality and Per Bak's simple idea on how it could be applied to learning in neural networks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140403-a-fundamental-theory-to-model-the-mind/ I find the simplicity of the idea very attractive. I doubt that it is enough, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up playing a central role in AGI. Best, Telmo. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a lot of evidence that humans, like other animals, learn > incrementally. However, my belief is that because we use ideas in different > ways a new idea can interact with other ideas. There are moments when > something that is learned incrementally can be leveraged to produce leaps > of insight. I call this knowledge structural because it means that an idea > can suddenly provide some greater structure to knowledge related to a > particular subject. The new increment of knowledge that triggers the > structural insight may or may not be the key that provides the leverage of > the structure. It may be that some new piece of knowledge just helps to > crystalize some structure in a way that helps the learner to better utilize > other knowledge. > > In programming and computational mathematics we find distinctions between > things like operators and operands and you have to be able to find > distinctions between other different parts of a computation if you want to > use mathematics creatively. However, I think it is obvious that the > situation is more dynamic and more fluid in thought. Some information may > play some role based on some other information so that it can react with > some other information and we just cannot categorize how some piece of > information might be used before hand. An AGI program has to be able to > find how information can work together to create greater structures of > knowledge. But for this to happen, the program has to be designed to > provide the structure that will ensure that the potential to build learned > structures is there. > Jim Bromer > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/25129130-ee4f7d55> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
