Evolution of Complex Behavior, Perception, Cognition, Consciousness & the Brain | Paul Cisek | 107
Mind & Matter
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How to Find Food When You're Hungry, Right?
The visual, the olfactory and the internal state are all mixed up together into this kind of system where it's non-decodable, right? But now if you have such a system that can learn where the food is, it becomes useful to detach the internal state aspect from all the other aspects. So even when you're swimming around just sort of swimming around idly, you're not hungry, you’re not threatened. You can still use and construct that information somehow and that becomes a kind of knowledge.
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