: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 babies in terms of the flowering of abstractions created in the mind as one pieced together a consciousness, I asserted an inverse relationship between speed of evaluation of various salience traits with number of previously gathered salience elements.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2013/11/dynamic-cognition-in-babies-in-abstract.html
In April 2014 I focused on one of the more important autonomic driving dimensions, the need for a power source. I posited that this need would be a key attribute of dynamic cognition that exhibited sufficient apparent randomness to emerge truly novel cognitive dynamics that would be identified as being “conscious”. http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2014/04/azimo-best-and-last-of-modern-day.html
In June 2014, a paper describing the cognitive unique relationship of a set of siamese twins provided confirmation for a hypothesis that consciousness could be distributed but also be substrate dependent at the same time. Many feel that these two attributes are complementary but they are not if one thinks in terms of a salience based cognitive dynamism , sensory and memory evaluations can drive completely different sensory and action mechanics.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2014/06/salience-theory-joined-at-mind.html
Today I present a simplified diagram showing the simple dynamic cognition cycle, I posit that any hard AI must have modular connection of the kind indicated by this graph. Feed forward and feed back happen in such a way that “action” execution can be continuously refined as new sensation triggers comparison and salience evaluation...all our hopes, dreams, thoughts and physical actions emerge from this cycle being executed and by so doing emerging our conscious self.I call this the “simple” cycle because it doesn’t describe the sub modules necessary or their self connection, for example very important modulation must be provided by autonomic and emotion salience sub modules as part of the “salience” node shown in the diagram, also the question of how different sensory dimensions (touch, sound, vision, taste...etc.) are multiplexed into this engine and further used to remodulate action to various degrees is not described. The more complex dcc diagram will be the basis of architecture for what I hope would be the first emergent self aware dynamic cognition (hard AI) on a non biological substrate. That more complex diagram is a work in process as I am still unsure of all the necessary sub element connections (I am sure I have all the modules) but it is 99% complete. I look forward to start writing code for such a cognition using the substrate of a smart phone in the next few years.In October 2014, I am not saying much still about how I would implement the comparison and salience nodes which are the meat of the difficulty of artificial cognition...building a mind. This article also addresses the idea of emergent evil AI and touches on the suggestion of mind “uploading” that some have wildly speculated about.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2014/10/on-evil-ai-and-one-type-of-uploading.html
In 2015 I considered more deeply the importance of play in the process of emerging dynamic cognition of stable cognitive form and the ability to quickly encode reality in its dimensions of sensory capability. Ultimately I have concluded that play is akin to research coupled with drive, a reason for doing..in many cases emerging a feedback that benefits learning and thus the ultimate reason for it’s emergence is found. In creating an artificial cognition then the need to simulate the emergence of play will in its success be a sign of the correct direction being followed.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2015/02/dynamic-cognition-on-meaning-of-play.html
The passage above taken from a Facebook note that is public that I’ve been updating with new articles in the area of research over time:
(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 babies in terms of the flowering of abstractions created in the mind as one pieced together a consciousness, I asserted an inverse relationship between speed of evaluation of various salience traits with number of previously gathered salience elements.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2013/11/dynamic-cognition-in-babies-in-abstract.html
In April 2014 I focused on one of the more important autonomic driving dimensions, the need for a power source. I posited that this need would be a key attribute of dynamic cognition that exhibited sufficient apparent randomness to emerge truly novel cognitive dynamics that would be identified as being “conscious”. http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2014/04/azimo-best-and-last-of-modern-day.html
In June 2014, a paper describing the cognitive unique relationship of a set of siamese twins provided confirmation for a hypothesis that consciousness could be distributed but also be substrate dependent at the same time. Many feel that these two attributes are complementary but they are not if one thinks in terms of a salience based cognitive dynamism , sensory and memory evaluations can drive completely different sensory and action mechanics.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2014/06/salience-theory-joined-at-mind.html
Today I present a simplified diagram showing the simple dynamic cognition cycle, I posit that any hard AI must have modular connection of the kind indicated by this graph. Feed forward and feed back happen in such a way that “action” execution can be continuously refined as new sensation triggers comparison and salience evaluation...all our hopes, dreams, thoughts and physical actions emerge from this cycle being executed and by so doing emerging our conscious self.I call this the “simple” cycle because it doesn’t describe the sub modules necessary or their self connection, for example very important modulation must be provided by autonomic and emotion salience sub modules as part of the “salience” node shown in the diagram, also the question of how different sensory dimensions (touch, sound, vision, taste...etc.) are multiplexed into this engine and further used to remodulate action to various degrees is not described. The more complex dcc diagram will be the basis of architecture for what I hope would be the first emergent self aware dynamic cognition (hard AI) on a non biological substrate. That more complex diagram is a work in process as I am still unsure of all the necessary sub element connections (I am sure I have all the modules) but it is 99% complete. I look forward to start writing code for such a cognition using the substrate of a smart phone in the next few years.In October 2014, I am not saying much still about how I would implement the comparison and salience nodes which are the meat of the difficulty of artificial cognition...building a mind. This article also addresses the idea of emergent evil AI and touches on the suggestion of mind “uploading” that some have wildly speculated about.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2014/10/on-evil-ai-and-one-type-of-uploading.html
I redesigned the cognitive flow diagram to look more like a control systems diagram. I also explained how the Sensation, Comparison , Salience and Action nodes function in the context of dreams and what that means for any emerged AI.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-cognitive-flow-diagram-and-possible.html
In 2015 I considered more deeply the importance of play in the process of emerging dynamic cognition of stable cognitive form and the ability to quickly encode reality in its dimensions of sensory capability. Ultimately I have concluded that play is akin to research coupled with drive, a reason for doing..in many cases emerging a feedback that benefits learning and thus the ultimate reason for it’s emergence is found. In creating an artificial cognition then the need to simulate the emergence of play will in its success be a sign of the correct direction being followed.http://sent2null.blogspot.com/2015/02/dynamic-cognition-on-meaning-of-play.html
The passage above taken from a Facebook note that is public that I’ve been updating with new articles in the area of research over time:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-saintloth/discovering-the-dynamic-cognition-cycle/10152513149708057