Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper's Epistemology (part 2)
The Theory of Anything
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Classical Conditioning and the Animal Learning Algorithm
Most animals rely on classical conditioning, which is reacting to stimuli. Instrumental conditioning is the same thing, but it's based on the active action of the animal. For one thing, you have to actually insert the world spade, the world space, into the animal's head for it to use it. If they were using actual reinforcement learning as we understand it to day,. It would be clear that what we call reinforcement learning and machine learning was inspired by instrumental conditioning. By this trial in airo arning of animals. That's why it bears a similar name. The two theories aren't the same. Animal reinforcement learning and computer reinforcement leang tho have the same name, but they
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