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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"

one way of doing this. In our near-term work with CogPrime, we are using simplistic approaches, with a view toward early-stage system testing. 12.4 Ethical Synergy An explicit goal system provides an explicit way to ensure that ethical principles (as represented in system goals) play a significant role in guid

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

inciple, they have the flexibility to deal with complex ethical decisions, including not only weighted “for the greater HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013128 12.4 Ethical Synergy 213 good” dichotomous decision making, but also the ability to develop moral decision networks which do not require that all situations be solved th

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

hics 205 12.1 Introduction 205 12.2 Review of Current Thinking on the Risks of AGI 206 12.3 The Value of an Explicit Goal System 209 12.4 Ethical Synergy 210 12.4.1 Stages of Development of Declarative Ethics 211 12.4.2 Stages of Development of Empathic Ethics 214 12.4.3 An Integrative Approa