--- On Thu, 1/8/09, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, > > Thanks. But how do you see these: > > "Pattern recognition in parallel, and hierarchical > learning of increasingly complex patterns by classical > conditioning (association), clustering in context space > (feature creation), and reinforcement learning to meet > evolved goals." > > as fundamentally different from logicomathematical > thinking? ("Reinforcement learning" strikes me as > literally extraneous and not a mode of thinking). Perhaps > you need to explain why conditioned association is > different.
Free association is the basic way of recalling memories. If you experience A followed by B, then the next time you experience A you will think of (or predict) B. Pavlov demonstrated this type of learning in animals in 1927. Hebb proposed a neural model in 1949 which has since been widely accepted. The model is unrelated to first order logic. It is a strengthening of the connections from neuron A to neuron B. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
