On 16/02/2008, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is well recognized that as well as declarative and procedural > memory, the human > brain contains a substantial "episodic memory" aspect, which stores some sort > of > abstracted "movies" of a mind's history. Clearly, matching of > abstracted-movie-subsets against > others is important, and variation manipulation processes on these > abstracted-movie-subsets
The way I imagine that such experiences might be stored in the brain is as a three dimensional fourier space, with neuron firing rates representing the constituent phases. A few people believe that fourier analysis occurs at the earliest stages of vision (http://www.ghuth.com/) and recent research on stereo vision (http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/j.c.a.read/publications/ReadCumming07.pdf) would be consistent with this view. > And clearly, humans possess the ability to use this component metaphorically > and imaginatively, beyond our actual experience. This is why I think different people are able to read a book and understand its contents, because they have a similar back catalogue of linguistic and pre-linguistic experience. The missing pre-linguistic component for automatic text understanding systems suggests a reason why computers cannot yet read and understand even the simple stories read by young children. ------------------------------------------- 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=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com