Thursday, April 05, 2007
Required materials
1. Inputs
2. Memory
3. Forced action
4. Drive?
1. Inputs with values
Do you want X to happen again or do you not want X to happen again.
Outputs are not necessary for the learning process. Change is necessary. Learning can't take place in a vacuum. If nothing is happening then no learning can occur.
Thought experiments:
Take me and disconnect all of my inputs - I can still output. Like a darkroom in a sense. Hanging in pitch black. Except no feeling of hanging, or the ache from screaming or anything - no inputs / no physical feeling of any sort. Can I learn? Yes. I can solve puzzles in my mind.
Take me and disconnect all of my outputs - I can still input. Like being frozen, paralyzed, no movement whatsoever - not even eyes. No communication with outside world. I can see. Can I learn? Yes. I can solve puzzles in my mind, but I can also watch what is in front of me, or hear what is around me, and from this I can learn new things.
Outputs don't teach - only inputs do. Without inputs - outputs mean nothing.
Logic isn't built in, it is the memory of rules applied over and over and over again.
Tenet of logic (I think) - If all inputs to a situation are identical then the output from that situation has to be identical. Where is that learned from. After multiple situations in life where all inputs are the same, and output is the same, it is learned that this applies not only to said situation, but to other situations as well. This requires a very complex multi dimensional memory matching system. Other tenets of logic are surely built upon similar ideas.
What are thoughts - person is completely still in a vacuum - has no ability to input or output, yet he still has thoughts. What does that mean?
Most innate reactions are fastest - b/c higher level reactions a
2. Memory
3. Forced action
4. Drive?
1. Inputs with values
Do you want X to happen again or do you not want X to happen again.
Outputs are not necessary for the learning process. Change is necessary. Learning can't take place in a vacuum. If nothing is happening then no learning can occur.
Thought experiments:
Take me and disconnect all of my inputs - I can still output. Like a darkroom in a sense. Hanging in pitch black. Except no feeling of hanging, or the ache from screaming or anything - no inputs / no physical feeling of any sort. Can I learn? Yes. I can solve puzzles in my mind.
Take me and disconnect all of my outputs - I can still input. Like being frozen, paralyzed, no movement whatsoever - not even eyes. No communication with outside world. I can see. Can I learn? Yes. I can solve puzzles in my mind, but I can also watch what is in front of me, or hear what is around me, and from this I can learn new things.
Outputs don't teach - only inputs do. Without inputs - outputs mean nothing.
Logic isn't built in, it is the memory of rules applied over and over and over again.
Tenet of logic (I think) - If all inputs to a situation are identical then the output from that situation has to be identical. Where is that learned from. After multiple situations in life where all inputs are the same, and output is the same, it is learned that this applies not only to said situation, but to other situations as well. This requires a very complex multi dimensional memory matching system. Other tenets of logic are surely built upon similar ideas.
What are thoughts - person is completely still in a vacuum - has no ability to input or output, yet he still has thoughts. What does that mean?
Most innate reactions are fastest - b/c higher level reactions a
Is anything truly random?
This question came up Seder night. I contend that nothing is random. When a deck of cards is thrown in the air the place, position, and even route where each card will land is determined by air flow, force, weather, and a million other small things. We call things random b/c we don't understand what causes them. A random thought is only a thought that we've no conscious understanding of where it came from. An example brought to prove that things can be random was Brownian Motion. This is the motion of molecules which both keep them in a fixed position; ie nothing falls apart b/c of their movement; and allows them to move in all sorts of directions with no possible explanation as to why. Of course this is still not random. Each molecule moves in response to a myriad of conditions which affect it. We are still incapable of analyzing those effects, and how they can affect a molecule, but their existence shouldn't be doubted.
