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Stephen Grossberg: How Does Each Brain Make A Mind? Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) & Consciousness

Sep 11, 2023
Stephen Grossberg, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, discusses his groundbreaking work on the Stability-Plasticity Dilemma, Competitive Learning & Catastrophic Forgetting, ART's Explanatory Power & Predictive Success, and the importance of cognitive emotional interaction and superstitious behaviors in the brain.
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Quick takeaways

  • The experiment highlights the need for autonomous, self-correcting mechanisms in learning and adaptation.
  • The models demonstrate the power of a canonical cortical circuit and the potential for general-purpose autonomous adaptive intelligence.

Deep dives

Thought Experiment: Autonomous Learning in a Changing World

The thought experiment explores how any system can autonomously learn to correct predictive errors in a changing world filled with unexpected events. The experiment focuses on the principle of sufficient reason and the role of reason in scientific theorizing. It poses two main questions: how can a coding error be corrected if no individual cell is aware of it, and how can a system learn to recognize and predict patterns in a changing environment? The experiment highlights the need for autonomous, self-correcting mechanisms in learning and adaptation.

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