Re: Hawkins ideas on building AI's

From: Glen M. Sizemore (gmsizemore2_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:37:09 -0400

B: That is pattern recognition, & that's what cortex does on every level.
Memory/association is just another term for it.

GS: Not exactly. Although it is true that much of what is called "memory" is
simply the effects of exposure to repeated presentations of stimuli
(habituation), "pairings" of stimuli (classical conditioning), and "3-term
contingencies" (operant conditioning), there is a bit more. That is, when
animals are exposed to, for example, delayed match-to-sample procedures,
they learn to do subtle things that mediate the temporal gap. The
acquisition of such behavior is, to be sure, the result of conditioning, but
it is not just one simple operant response class.

B: There're lots of redundant terms in AI, philosophy, neuroscience..., but
"Entities must not be multiplied unnecessarily" (Occam)

GS: But, unfortunately, cognitive psychology's raison d'etre is the
promiscuous invention of explanatory fictions. And cognitive psychology has
corrupted AI, neuroscience, etc.

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