Connectionists: how the brain works?

[Juyang Weng]

Danko,

Good attempt.

Any theory about brain/mind must address the First Principle:  How it 
learns visual invariance directly from natural cluttered environments.
Your article does not seem to address the First Principle, does it?

-John

On 3/7/14 11:22 AM, Danko Nikolic wrote:
> I believe that the readers of Connectionists list my be interested in 
> the manuscript available on arXiv (1402.5332) proposing the principles 
> by which adaptive systems create intelligent behavior. It is a 
> theoretical paper that has been recently submitted to a journal, and 
> the editors agreed to post it on arXiv.
>
> A nice context for this manuscript is, I think, the recent discussion 
> on Connectionists list on "how the brain works?", -- including the 
> comparison to how the radio works, arguments that neuroscience has not 
> reached the maturity of 19th century physics, that the development 
> should be an essential component, etc.
>
> I assess that anyone who enjoyed following that discussion, like I 
> did, would be interested also in what the proposed theory has to say.
>
> The theory addresses those problems by placing the question of brain 
> workings one level more abstract than it is usually discussed: It 
> proposes a general set of properties that adaptive systems need to 
> have to exhibit intelligent behavior (nevertheless, concrete examples 
> are given from biology and technology). Finally, the theory proposes 
> what is, in principle, missing in the current approaches in order to 
> account for the higher, biological-like levels of adaptive behavior.
>
> For those who are interested, I recommend using the link on my website:
>
> http://www.danko-nikolic.com/practopoiesis/
>
> because there I provided, in addition, a simplified introduction into 
> some of the main conclusions derived from the theory.
>
> I would very much like to know what people think. Comments will be 
> appreciated.
>
> With warm greetings from Germany,
>
> Danko Nikolic
>

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