On 29/02/2008, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you are doing is saying that to understand visual (or other) > images, or more generally to understand sequences like sequences of > words in a sentence, the mind MUST replay these on some internal viewing > screen.
Instead of a screen think of it as a kind of reflection. In an ideal world the incoming data and the outgoing reflection (the prediction or expectation) always synchronize. Because of the brain's limited resources the reflection must be constituted from components which are of lower complexity than the real world events which gave rise to them, i.e. abstractions or simplifications (or compression if you want to think of it that way). Higher conceptual levels are only really made possible by this synchronization process, since an entirely bottom up analysis of incoming data would simply be too ambiguous and lead to combinatorial explosions. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
