" ;*==== dynamic connectionist representation ====*" 0 0 " ; Is there something about Harry? " 0 0 0 1 12 " ; we hypothesize that " 0 0 " ; actions of the body, e.g. production of cortisol, " 0 0 " ; adrenilin, etc. associated with affect, influence " 0 0 " ; the activation of neurons " 0 0 5 0 "AFFECTIVE influence" " ; we hypothesize that " 0 0 " ; if there is an independent world, that world will " 0 0 " ; influence the activation of neurons " 0 0 " ; if there is no independent world, a story needs to be " 0 0 " ; told about what source provides this degree of input " 0 0 " ; perhaps it is the influence of god or angels " 0 0 5 1 "WORLD influence" " ; the model is silent on the ontological status of perceptions " 0 0 " ; materialist may interpret in a topic neutral way " 0 0 " ; dualist and epiphenomenalist may see qualia here " 0 0 " ; in any case this collection of nodes is excited when instances of " 0 0 " ; their corresponding object types are present " 0 0 5 2 "available chicken perception-interface 2" 5 3 "available fish perception-interface 3" " ; Harry first learns about chicken only by smell and about fish only by sight . " 0 0 " ; Consequently bundles of neurons that are responsible for optical processing " 0 0 " ; are activated in response to each instance of an experience or thought " 0 0 " ; associated with the relevant corresponding object type learned by way of sight. " 0 0 5 4 "optical processing; learn fish by sight 4" " ; Harry first learns about chicken only by smell. " 0 0 " ; consequently bundles of neurons that are responsible for auoral processing " 0 0 " ; are activated in response to each instance of an experience or thought " 0 0 " ; associated with the relevant corresponding object type learned by way of smell. " 0 0 5 5 "arual processing; learn chicken by smell 5" " ; linguistic, logical, and other conceptual representations are created " 0 0 " ; and activated in other areas of the brain as a consequence of " 0 0 " ; repeated experiences " 0 0 5 6 " re:'chicken' concept 6" 5 7 " re:'fish' concept 7" " ; the Food class concept represents a quite complex neural bundle. " 0 0 " ; not only does this bundle associate individual instances of the " 0 0 " ; type 'food' but is an abstract sortal for heirarchical processing " 0 0 5 12 "Food class concept 12" 1 12 7 1 12 6 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 2 5 1 3 4 1 6 2 1 6 5 1 3 7 1 4 7 " ; the concepts fish and chicken compete as do the methods associated " 0 0 " ; with each respective concept " 0 0 2 6 7 2 10 11 " ; SMELLING FISH SUPRESSES CHICKEN SEEKING BEHAVIOR AND ACTIVATES " 0 0 " ; FISH SEEKING BEHAVIOR .... AND VICE VERSA " 0 0 " ; this does not mean that absence of one is evidence for the other " 0 0 2 10 4 2 11 5 5 8 "Moved toward -> 8" 3 8 .05 1 0 8 " ; Harry wants to do whatever will provide food " 0 0 1 8 13 " ; -------------------------------- " 0 0 " ; Harry comes toward the bar-ba-que and begins experiencing. " 0 0 " ; ---------------------------------- " 0 0 " ; ---------------------------------- " 0 0 " ; This excites his arual processing system neurons which connect " 0 0 " ; with food concepts. He thinks, 'hmmmm food.' But because he has " 0 0 " ; not learned all foods in the same way, only food concepts he had " 0 0 " ; learned by smell get activated as a consequence of this initial " 0 0 " ; experience.(However, Food concepts and categories may have already " 0 0 " ; been established in connection with language learning via dthat.) " 0 0 " ; expainations " 0 0 7 3 4 7 2 5 7 5 6 7 4 7 " ; dthat is the neurology of ostension " 0 0 " ; dthat has two distinct roles, name-dthat and get-dthat " 0 0 " ; name-that is intimately connected to observation nodes " 0 0 " ; get-that is intimately connected to methods nodes. " 0 0 " ; we use dthat to capture neuronal activations associated with " 0 0 " ; tagging observations without attributing any properties to the " 0 0 " ; observation except that the subject observation is self-identical " 0 0 " ; and not another thing " 0 0 5 9 "dthat 9" " ; name-dthat is accomplished via links between dthat, some " 0 0 " ; observation, and concept nodes active in association with further " 0 0 " ; retrieval of the name " 0 0 1 9 7 1 9 6 1 9 12 " ; the above captures the ambiguity between fish, chicken, and food " 0 0 " ; get-that, is accomplished via links between dthat, some " 0 0 " ; motor activating neurons such as move-towards, and observations " 0 0 1 9 2 1 9 3 1 9 8 " ; we will entertain three theories, food, fish, and chicken. " 0 0 8 0 3 " ; collapsed into the following neural bundles are motor neurons " 0 0 " ; as well as complex strategies and proceedural knowledge " 0 0 5 10 "go method for chicken T1 10" 5 11 "go method for fish T2 11" 5 13 "common go method for food 13" 1 10 13 1 11 13 1 12 13 " ; if the methods for investigating/consuming an observation competes " 0 0 " ; greatly with other methods in the network this will impact acceptance " 0 0 " ; or rejection of nodes elsewhere in the network. " 0 0 " ; here we mark neuronal bundles that may together represent theories " 0 0 " ; that cohere together or compete. So, we mark concept nodes and " 0 0 " ; methods nodes of the respective theories appropriately. " 0 0 " ; Evidence nodes may contribute to the acceptance of one or more " 0 0 " ; theories and so are not marked at belonging to a particular theory " 0 0 10 10 "T1 chicken" 10 11 "T2 fish" 10 6 "T1 chicken" 10 7 "T2 fish" 10 12 "T3 food" 10 1 "" 10 2 "" 10 3 "" 10 4 "" 10 5 "" 10 8 "" 10 9 "" 1 11 7 1 10 6 1 8 10 1 8 11 1 10 12 1 11 12