Vladimir, that's a nice, tight overview of a design. What drives the creation/deletion of nodes? Ricky Loynd
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:28:36 +0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [email protected]> Subject: Re: [agi] Ideological Interactions Need to be > Studied> > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:> >>> >> But enough of that, let's get to the meat of it: Are you > arguing that the> >> function that is a neuron is not an elementary operator > for whatever> >> computational model describes the brain?> >>> >> > We don't > know which "function that describes a neuron" we need to use --> > are > Izhikevich's nonlinear dynamics models of ion channels good> > enough, or do > we need to go deeper?> >> > Also we don't know about the importance of > extracellular charge> > diffusion... computation/memory happening in the > glial network ...> > etc. ... phenomena which suggest that the > neuron-functions are not the> > only elementary operators at play in brain > dynamics...> >> > Lots of fun stuff still to be learned ;-)> >> > My current > design maps nicely on a simplistic low-level structure of> the brain: more or > less static network with some long-reaching edges> and some local edges, > nodes of high degree, edges directed and with> delay. My analysis suggests > that it is a sufficient system to> implement high-level capabilities > associated with intelligence. In> this model, nodes only need to perform > unsupervised binary clustering> (active/inactive), and rather simple online > adaptive maximum margin> with some tweaks seems to suffice. Maybe most of the > brain is> something like that, with high-level structure only used for> > optimization, encoding of inborn drives and bootstrapping.> > -- > 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/?&;> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- 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=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
