Category: Neurobiology/psychology

• Learning: Brain vs xNN

  The neural and cognitive architecture for learning from a small sample is a nice article I would like to recommend. It highlights how human learners avoid generalization issues found in machine learning, proposes a general model explaining how the brain may simplify complex problems. Synergy between cognitive functions and reinforcement learning allows simplification.Recurrent loops between…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-14

  AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology

• Can we get human nature right?

  For years, I have the pleasure to follow the great blog site of Deric Brownd. I would like to share with you this post on the recent perspective on ‘Can we get human nature right?‘. Iris Berent does an interesting Perspective artice in PNAS that considers the strong intuitions that laypeople hold about human nature. People’s attitudes…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-01

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

• Does the quality of “Smart Information Processing” connect with the Default Mode Network ?

  I was triggered by an article in Nature, explaining the atypical connectome hierarchy in ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). ASD is characterized by atypical sensory processing, while and deficits in high-level cognitive and social functions, including impairments in Theory of Mind and predictive abilities. The article points out that ASD might emerge from disturbances in macroscale cortical…

  walterstiers

  2021-08-22

  AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology, Science, Walking

• Friston: The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI, WIRED says.

  Karl Friston’s free energy principle might be the most all-encompassing idea since Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. But to understand it, you need to peer inside the mind of Friston himself. Wired has a great article on this idea and researcher.Some inspiring exerpts and quotes: He realized that [it] had no larger purpose, at…

  walterstiers

  2021-07-05

  Active Inference, AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

  #ActiveInference, #HumanAI, #ProblemSolvingMind

• Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism

  Apparent downward causation does not demand that estimates of aggregate properties be correct or even good predictors of the system’s future state or successful strategies (although that would be useful). Furthermore, components do not need to agree in their estimates of the variables. Apparent downward causation becomes effective downward causation—the strong form—when: As an interaction or environmental…

  walterstiers

  2021-06-25

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Neurobiology/psychology

  #downcausation, #emergence