Re: Finding useful functions- part 1

From: patty (pattyNO_at_SPAMicyberspace.net)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:56:54 GMT

Stargazer wrote:
> patty wrote:
>
>>[snip] I see a lot of assertions in your article, but i see no experimental
>>observations. Reporting such observations could amount to pointers to
>>actual data or to an experiment where any movement of the organism was
>>prevented, yet it could still be proved that learning happened. Perhaps where
>>muscles to the eyes and limbs are severed, yet learning
>>can still be demonstrated.
>
>
> An interesting (and short) introduction to the subject of Mr. Modlin's
> post can be read in this book review:
>
> http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2483/is_2_22/ai_76698533/print
>
> If you want to dig deeper, take a look at this:
>
> http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~wiskott/Bibliographies/LearningInvariances.html
>
> But if you're not interested in theoretical matters, just a bit
> of empirical support for this research, take a look at this:
>
> http://waisman.wisc.edu/infantlearning/INFANT_RESEARCH.HTML
>
> *SG*

Well my take on Bill's type of learning is absence of a training signal
*and* absence of behavior ... iow it is the nature of the network is to
  change by noticing correlations in its input - its output is
irrelevant to the process. The articles you site above are all just
about "Unsupervised Learning" ... iow absence of a training signal. In
unsupervised learning the organism moves and then notices how those
motions change what it senses - in Bill's learning the organism just
notices how what it is sensing changes. But then maybe i have misread him.

patty

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