action selection

How to build a General Intelligence: An interpretation of the biology

by ProjectAGI
January 24, 2016December 22, 2017
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Figure 1: Our interpretation of the Thalamocortical system as 3 interacting sub-systems (objective, subjective and executive). The structure of the diagram indicates the dominant direction of information flow in each system. The objective system is primarily concerned with feed-forward data flow, for the purpose of building a representation of the… Read More »How to build a General Intelligence: An interpretation of the biology

How to build a General Intelligence: Circuits and Pathways

by ProjectAGI
December 22, 2015December 22, 2017
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Figure 1: Our headline image is from the Cognitive Consilience: An atlas of key pathways cross-referenced to supporting literature articles. The complexity and variety of routing within the brain can be appreciated with this beautiful illustration. Note in particular the specialisation of cortical cells and the way this affects their… Read More »How to build a General Intelligence: Circuits and Pathways

Agency and Hierarchical Action Selection

by David Rawlinson
December 22, 2014December 22, 2017
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This post asks some questions about the agency of hierarchical action selection. We assume various pieces of HTM / MPF canon, such as a cortical hierarchy. Agency The concept of agency has various meanings in psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and philosophy. The common element is having control over a system, with… Read More »Agency and Hierarchical Action Selection