Epstein Secrets

ain is that synaptic connec- tions between neurons are adapted via some variant of Hebbian learning. The original Hebbian learning rule, proposed by Donald Hebb in his 1949 book [Heb49J, was roughly 1. The weight of the synapse x r y increases if x and y fire at roughly the same time 2. The weight of the sy

us to attractor neural nets. The OpenCog design also contains a mechanism called Psynese (not yet implemented), in- tended to make it easier for one OpenCog instance to translate its personal thoughts into the mental language of another OpenCog instance. This translation process may be quite subtle, sin

representation, with an explicit (uncertain) logical aspect as well as an explicit subsymbolic aspect more analogous to attractor neural nets. The OpenCog design also contains a mechanism called Psynese (not yet implemented), in- tended to make it easier for one OpenCog instance to translate its persona

d, editor, Formal Theories of the Commonsense World. 1985. 11206. Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee. On Intelligence. Brown Walker, 2006. Heb49. Donald Hebb. The organisation of behavior. Wiley, 1949. Hey07. F. Heylighen. The Global Superorganism: an evolutionary-cybernetic model of the emerging net- wo

zed Terms • Abduction: A general form of inference that goes from data describing something to a hypothesis that accounts for the data. Often in an OpenCog context, this refers to the PLN abduction rule, a specific First-Order PLN rule (If A implies C, and B implies C, then maybe A is B), which embodie

bility. EFTA00624100 Appendix A Glossary A.1 List of Specialized Acronyms This includes acronyms that are commonly used in discussing CogPrime, OpenCog and related ideas, plus sonic that occur here and there in the text for relatively ephemeral reasons. • AA: Attention Allocation • ADF: Automatica

rain is that synaptic connec- tions between neurons are adapted via some variant of Hebbian learning. The original Hebbian learning rule, proposed by Donald Hebb in his 1949 book [Heb49], was roughly 1. The weight of the synapse 2 > y increases if x and y fire at roughly the same time 2. The weight of the syn

us to attractor neural nets. The OpenCog design also contains a mechanism called Psynese (not yet implemented), in- tended to make it easier for one OpenCog instance to translate its personal thoughts into the mental language of another OpenCog instance. This translation process may be quite subtle, since

d representation, with an explicit (uncertain) logical aspect as well as an explicit subsymbolic aspect more analogous to attractor neural nets. The OpenCog design also contains a mechanism called Psynese (not yet implemented), in- tended to make it easier for one OpenCog instance to translate its persona

sford, editor, Formal Theories of the Commonsense World. 1985. HBO6. Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee. On Intelligence. Brown Walker, 2006. Heb49. Donald Hebb. The organization of behavior. Wiley, 1949. Hey07. F. Heylighen. The Global Superorganism: an evolutionary-cybernetic model of the emerging net- wor

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013240 Appendix A Glossary A.1 List of Specialized Acronyms This includes acronyms that are commonly used in discussing CogPrime, OpenCog and related ideas, plus some that occur here and there in the text for relatively ephemeral reasons. AA: Attention Allocation ADF: Automatically De

alized Terms Abduction: A general form of inference that goes from data describing something to a hypothesis that accounts for the data. Often in an OpenCog context, this refers to the PLN abduction rule, a specific First-Order PLN rule (If A implies C, and B implies C, then maybe A is B), which embodies