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Originally Posted by Melchior  This is similar to the differences in sequential and parallel computing, although I think the network of our neurons in our brain are a tad bit more complicated than either model on it's own, certainly not sequential (i.e. we don't have one neuron doing everything). I'm not sure, but it is likely that a different hardware architecture will need to be made for anything like this to be modeled efficiently (maybe something like MIMD, if you're familiar with that terminology). And with what you mentioned of Hawkins, this seems to be the case. |
Yeah. The way Hawkins describes it, the information flows up and down a hierarchy, altering the cells in a Heisenburgesque way, so while you can arrange them neatly in terms of role, that role isn't temporal except for the "first" pass.
I'm not familiar with MIMD, but my first thought when you mentioned sequential or parallel was to think "distributed" instead. I dunno. Taking an Information object and tossing it randomly from one column to another. Kinda like pathing, except there are lots of agents and they're competing.
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Originally Posted by Melchior In other words, letting it go to those people at CSAIL or something more specialized like the mind machine project. This article about it is actually a bit easier to read, and kinda details what it is that I want to happen. Speaking of which Minsky is on that team, tried reading some of his stuff once   (you get what I mean), will probably try again when I've got a better grasp of things... Thanks for the book links. |
Letting it go, or becoming one of them. Specialization is good.
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Originally Posted by Melchior Speaking of which, the above article was shown to me by a friend, just yesterday at that.  Say, what fields are you interested in?  |
Heh.
Virtual worlds, political theory, systems of magic, theology, small-scale social dynamics, character, education. Off the top off my head.
Newspapers tend to be boring.