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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"

evolutionary neurodynamics and the more abstract sort of evolution that patternist philosophy posits to occur in the realm of mind-patterns. 13.6 Glocal Memory A glocal memory is one that transcends the global local dichotomy and incorporates both aspects in a tightly interconnected way. Here we make the g

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

en evolutionary neurodynamics and the more abstract sort of evolution that patternist philosophy posits to occur in the realm of mind-patterns. 13.6 Glocal Memory A glocal memory is one that transcends the global/local dichotomy and incorporates both aspects in a tightly interconnected way. Here we make the gl

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

ng 258 13.5.1 Hebbian Learning 258 13.5.2 Virtual Synapses and Hebbian Learning Between Assemblies 258 13.5.3 Neural Darwinism 259 13.6 Glocal Memory 260 13.6.1 A Semi-Formal Model of Glocal Memory 262 13.6.2 Glocal Memory in the Brain 263 13.6.3 Glocal Hopfield Networks 268 13.6.4 Neu

er-level behaviors like reasoning or subgoaling. e NOMAD (Neurally Organized Mobile Adaptive Device) automata and its successors [KE06] 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

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