davidsaintloth

(part 3)

:20 days later I asserted the primary importance of one particular dimension of sensory experience over the others, that dimension being the one we have from the moment our fetuses form, somatsensory experience...the sense of touch. I asserted that cognitive complexity built around this primordial sensation and the connections built in the mind to enable embodiment. I discussed how cognition and consciousness must clearly be constructed by reference to its variable non existence at birth and slowly being built into the mind as the infant matures and learns about the world. I explained a recently published articles conclusion that it was easier for younger babies to learn various concepts than older... (read 566 more words →)

(part 2)

:By the end of February I realized that the likely first substrate for emerging a fully dynamic cognition would be one which had sufficient sensory dimensions and autonomic drive dimensions to serve as the basis for building a salience module. The most ready such device is a smart phone and so I proposed that smart phones will be the first devices to on their own become self aware ONCE they are designed with the correct salience driven cycle.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2012/02/when-your-smart-phone-comes-alive.html

A whole year went by as I struggled with my own survival issues before I came back to emotion as a critical salience component. I was stimulated by research which showed how emotion could... (read 586 more words →)

This fits very much in my findings having written a dynamic cognition theory that sees the key to cognitive dynamics as being in getting the reinforcement learning right.

In the Salience theory of dynamic cognition I've put forward, salience (which is a descriptor for the functions performed by the emotional and autonomic centers of the brain combined) is the reason why the generalized algorithm of the neocortex (which I assert is nothing more than comparison after sensation, selection after comparison, and finally prediction on top of the selection. Salience is what is used to decide what to predict which then does or does not drive action.

I'd been refining the theory... (read 971 more words →)