The brain has a model--an over arching one. At best is can be said the entire brain. Now, that model includes both hemispheres. Redundancy for one, but also just too may things to do and the need to many clusters of neurons. It is still true for edge cases like you said--in that case, when there is a severed corpus callous, the model is still there. You've just severed the highest level connection--a physical act that doesn't change he fact that the brain has a model it is working with.
Thanks. I take that as encouragement to hurry the f*** up.
Have you considered the fact that emotional evaluation comes at a high cost? It takes energy to evaluate the actual emotion as well as the valence. And it is all situational of course because to do emotions evaluation of a moment, you need to take beliefs/thoughts as well as sensory input. You model doesn't point that out enough. The human brain grew from the brainstem/limbic to the cortex AND the motor cortex. Our CNS is part of our brain, period. And it all works on valence. The actions you take are informed by valance.
So the brain has to take beliefs and current... (read more)
I claim that valence plays an absolutely central role in the brain
I believe you are right. I am working on a comprehensive theory that covers valence, emotional evaluation, and belief sets. I propose that it is fairly easy to predict emotional response when certain information is known, essentially a binary tree of decision questions will lead to various emotions; the strength of the resulting emotions is based on a person's current valance toward action/inaction as well as the result of normal emotional evaluation. Valences are added/subtracted to the final emotional evaluation. For example, something may produce happiness but if your valence is very low (depression), you will discount it. Valence and emotional... (read more)
I have written on this recently on my Medium account although I called it validation. A compliment is pointing out sometime nice about someone. And is magic just as you say.
Validation to me let the person know I noticed them and what they did/created, I compliment them on what they did in a way that lets them know I read/listened to them, and then I offer constructive advice on possible future paths. And then re-iterate that I appreciate them and can't wait to see what they do next.
All of this rests on doing it authentically as you mention. Empty praise feels empty and a savvy recipient will be able to sue that... (read more)
Look, I can go into mania like anyone else here probably can. My theories say that can't be genius level without it and that it comes with emotional sensitivity as well. Of course if you don't believe you have empathy, you won't, but you still have it.
I am not an AI doom and gloomiest. I adhere to Gödel, to Heisenberg, and to Georgeff. And since we haven't solved the emotional / experience part of AI, there is no way it can compete with humans creatively, period. Faster, yes. Better, no. Objectively better. not at all.
However, if my theory of the brain is correct, it means AI must go quantum to have any... (read more)
Hi. I found this site while having some consciousness discussions on reddit.
I've been a Chief Technology Officer for 25+ years, including two public companies. I have 12 patents around engagement and learning. My interests include theoretical physics, evolutionary psychology, cognition, AI, ethics, and all things music/dance/art/design. My modus operandi is to try to get to the abstraction around a problem. I delve into the details enough to formulate my hypothesis on the patterns I see. Then I will evolve those theories based on new information. But I don't have the time, nor the capacity, to be deeply read in everything I think about. What I do have is the ability to abstract... (read 530 more words →)
I sort of dismiss the entire argument here because based on my understanding, the brain determines the best possible outcomes given a set of beliefs (aka experiences) and based on some boolean logic based on sense of self, others, and reality, the result in actions will be derived from quantum wave function collapse given the belief set, current stimulus, and possible actions. I'm not trying to prove why I believe they are quantum here, except to say, to think otherwise is just saying quantum effects are not part of nature and not part of evolution. And that seems to be what would need to be proven given how efficient evolution is and... (read more)
I'm new here. Where would I post something like this for discussion? It seems applicable to this article. I believe there is a simpler approach but might require quantum computing for it to be useful since the number of beliefs to be updated is so large.
(1) No writer lies nor intentionally disrespects another living being unless they believe that they are justified. Ergo, all statements are true within. a belief context.
(2) If (1) is true, then the belief context of the writer any statement is required,
(3) if belief context cannot be known completely, then the closest context that would allow the statement to be true should be assumed. This requires evaluating existing... (read more)
I was CTO of a company called Agentis in 2006-2008. Agentis was founded by Michael Georgeff, who published the seminal paper on BDI agents. Agents backed with LLM will be amazing. Unfortunately, AI will never quite reach our level of creativity and ability to form new insights. But on compute and basic level emotional stages, it will be fairly remarkable. HMU if you want to discuss. steve@beselfevident.com
I don't know if I buy that valence is based on dopamine neurons but I do believe valance is delta between current state and possible future state. Very much like action potential or potential energy. If one possible outcome could grant you the world, then you will have a very high valance to do the actions needed. Likewise if you life is on the line, that is very high valance. That turns anger to rage. Unfortunately, my model also says that too many positive thoughts, lead to a race condition between dopamine generation and thought analysis can can lead to mania/psychosis. When you want things too much (desire) or too little (doubt/despair),... (read more)