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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"

ral systems theory context, then introducing some modifications and extensions and discussing some other relevant work. 187 EFTA00623963 188 11 Stages of Cognitive Development 11.2 Piagetan Stages in the Context of a General Systems Theory of Development Our review of AGI architectures in Chapter 4 focused heavily on the

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

tems theory context, then introducing some modifications and extensions and discussing some other relevant work. 187 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013103 188 11 Stages of Cognitive Development 11.2 Piagetan Stages in the Context of a General Systems Theory of Development Our review of AGI architectures in Chapter 4 focused heavily on the

r-level behaviors like reasoning or subgoaling. • NOMAD (Neurally Organized Mobile Adaptive Device) automata and its successors [K EMI are based on Edelman's "Neural Darwinism" model of the brain, and feature large numbers of simulated neurons evolving by natural selection into configurations that carry

10.5 How Might the Mind-World Correspondence Principle Be Useful? 181 10.6 Conclusion 182 Section III Cognitive and Ethical Development 11 Stages of Cognitive Development 187 11.1 Introduction 187 11.2 Piagetan Stages in the Context of a General Systems Theory of Development 188 11.3 Piaget's Theory of Cogni

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