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0,000 neurons each. Once one has committed oneself to looking at such groups, the next step is to ask how these groups are organized, which leads to Edelman's concept of "maps." A "map," in Edelman's terminology, is a connected set of groups with the property that when one of the inter-group connection

to Hebbian learning between assemblies has been pursued by Nobelist Gerald Edelman in his theory of neuronal group selection, or "Neural Darwinism." Edelman won a Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, which, like most modern immunology, was based on C. MacFarlane Burnet's theory of "clonal selection"

sorimotor network will naturally possess hierarchical conceptual relationships, and will thus naturally grow hier- archical links between them (e.g. InheritanceLinks and IntensionalinheritanceLinks via PLN, AsymmetricHebbianLinks via ECAN). EFTA00624057 15 Emergent Networks of Intelligence artefact Fig. 15.2

50,000 neurons each. Once one has committed oneself to looking at such groups, the next step is to ask how these groups are organized, which leads to Edelman’s concept of “maps.” A “map,” in Edelman’s terminology, is a connected set of groups with the property that when one of the inter-group connections

similar transient assemblies when highly activated. The importance of repeated, slightly varied copies of the same subnetwork has been emphasized by Edelman [Ede93] among other neural theorists. 1 The larger an ensemble is, she suggests, the more vivid it is as a conscious experience; an hypothesis that

nsorimotor network will naturally possess hierarchical conceptual relationships, and will thus naturally grow hier- archical links between them (e.g. InheritanceLinks and IntensionalInheritanceLinks via PLN, AsymmetricHebbianLinks via ECAN). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013197 282 15 Emergent Networks of Intelligence Fig. 15

as control shifts between competing brain regions, again, based on high-level "cognitive demand." Deacon's intuition is similar to the one that led Edelman to propose Neural Darwinism tEcle931, and Calvin and Bickerton IC13001 to pose the notion of mind as a "Darwin Machine". The latter have given plau

d B are characterized by relationships of the form Member C A, Member D B, etc. It is easy to see that, in the crisp case, where all MemberLinks and InheritanceLinks have strength 0 or 1, FOPLN reduces to standard propositional logic. Where inheritance is crisp but membership isn't, FOPLN reduces to higher-order