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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"

the possible emergence of structures characterizing inter-cognitive reflection. 279 EFTA00624055 280 15 Emergent Networks of Intelligence 15.2 Small World Networks One simple but potentially useful observation about CogPrime Atomspaces is that they are generally going to be small world networks Inuc03], rather

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

sible emergence of structures characterizing inter-cognitive reflection. 279 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013195 280 15 Emergent Networks of Intelligence 15.2 Small World Networks One simple but potentially useful observation about CogPrime Atomspaces is that they are generally going to be small world networks [Buc03], rather

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

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