So much for getting work done today :)
I noticed at this conference that different researchers were using basic words like "knowledge" and "representation" and "learning" and "evolution" in very different ways -- which makes communication tricky!
Don't get me started on "Working Memory".
In an AI context, it means whether something exists explicitly in the source code, rather than coming about dynamically as an indirect result of the sourcecode, in the bit-patterns in RAM created by the executable running...
A fair definition.
Agreed. And I think that sensorimotor stuff is more likely to be explicit rather than emergent in the brain.... And that, in coding an AI system, it's hopeless to try to make too much of cognition explicit rather than emergent -- but the same statement probably doesn't hold for perception & action...
If that were the case, would you not expect to see more variance in high level behaviors? Instead we tend to see the same types of behavior expressed, the only difference between people being the relative amount of expression of these tendencies.
But I guess that's an arguable point, whether these observed tendencies among a population of people are actually there, or are only a product of the theories used to classify them.
-Brad
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