On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vlad, > > It is my belief that humans can do intuitive cost/benefit analysis without > deliberation, although many forms of cost/benefit analysis do require > deliberation. > > For example a basketball player often looks around him in a one or two > seconds makes a decision who to throw to, whether to shoot, or whether to > make a move with the ball, based on an intuitive cost/benefit analysis. My > model of the brain is one of massive parallelism, in which many multi-level > patterns are being matched at one time. Thus when a basket ball player > scans around him the various things he sees might activate patterns to > various degress that involve both patterns of success, patterns of failure > and risk associated with various patterns for behaviors, and patterns for > various behaviors could receive varying scores, and the equivalent to the > basil ganglia could select the pattern with the best score for increasing > attention and finally action commitment. > > All this type of intuitive decistion making could be made without anything > approaching what we normally think of as deliberation. >
Agreed, but still I wouldn't call such process fundamental. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- 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=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
