Hi,
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Stewart Mackenzie <[email protected]>wrote: > ... > When things get rough am I correct in assuming the lower levels in the > hierarchy become saturated with signals to the point nothing can be made > out. At this point the patterns instilled at higher levels of the hierarchy > take over. > I don't think this is correct. Do you have any support? I believe we have "hardwired" centers for critical operation - think of a special CLA region whose output has priority (=higher permanences) before others, we've developed these as "animals". These centers recieve low-level input (bcs it's fast), that is directly from sensors, or from low level CLAs. The examples are, when you put your hand in fire, you move your hand, no thinking. When we try to drown you :), you shut the mouth under water and stop breathing. My support for why not higher level concepts - empirically, the idea of Al-Queida bombing your house does not trigger such panic, while the examples above do. And practical too, if you need an autopilot, you dont build it on Windows 8 which asks FB API, but in an embedded device. Back to your training example, I think hard training (Pavlov's dogs, 10yrs of kung-fu) makes the trained pathways in brain so strong to act sub-counsiously like the survival centers. So if you were to scare such a trained soldier, he can react automatically and kill you, even if you're his friend. Because he's been trained to kill. You mention lower levels become (over-)saturated with signals to conclude we must use higher levels for quick reactions. I think this is false, because low levels operate always at the same speed - your eyes do percieve at a given "frame-rate", no matter what happens, they don't become oversaturated. When we act real quick (==automatic) it's because you don't wait for high level concepts to decide "Hmm, this man with a gun pointing at me. He wears enemy uniform. But he's smiling, maybe we should chat?" -- Marek Otahal :o)
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