Human Mind and AI models

Oct 14th 2022

I found very interesting common points between this two publications from different fields:


1. Jerath, R., & Beveridge, C. (2018). Top Mysteries of the Mind: Insights From the Default Space Model of Consciousness. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 12, 162.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00162

2. Ha, D., & Schmidhuber, J. (2018). Recurrent world models facilitate policy evolution. Advances in neural information processing systems, 31.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1809.01999
Interactive version of paper presented at NIPS 2018.

@ Long story short
-The concept of representation and the way the intelligent agent solves problems to survive under uncertainty is very similar.
-"Evolutionary" and "Policy" seems analogous ideas.
-IMHO, generally speaking, efficient simulation of the environment is the common goal.



Quote from publication 1:

"Humans develop a mental model of the world based on what they are able to perceive with their limited senses, learning abstract representations of both spatial and temporal aspects of sensory inputs. For instance, we are able to observe a scene and remember an abstract description thereof [7, 67]. Our decisions and actions are influenced by our internal predictive model. For example, what we perceive at any given moment seems to be governed by our predictions of the future [52, 59]. One way of understanding the predictive model inside our brains is that it might not simply be about predicting the future in general, but predicting future sensory data given our current motor actions [38, 48]. We are able to instinctively act on this predictive model and perform fast reflexive behaviours when we face danger [55], without the need to consciously plan out a course of action [52]."



Quote from publication 2:

"This nature is illuminated by the founding notion of the Default Space Model (DSM) and other ‘‘world simulation’’ models, that the external physical world is subjectively simulated by an internally generated experiential reality (Hesslow, 2002; Revonsuo, 2006; Trehub, 2007). According to the DSM, this internal reality biologically consists of macroscopic, synchronized bioelectric oscillations throughout the brain and body (Jerath et al., 2015a). This bioelectric architecture provides the conscious phenomenon of a 3D matrix framework for the qualities of the external world to be defaulted into (Jerath et al., 2015a). A common human experience is that we directly experience the external world through our senses, however, the DSM explains along with evidence from illusions, neurology and psychology that what we experience is actually heavily influenced by our executive expectations, past experiences, and biases instead of a direct experience of external stimuli (Driver and Vuilleumier, 2001; Smythies, 2003; Grush, 2004; Revonsuo, 2006; Maldonato and Dell’Orco, 2012). This internal simulation of the external world is therefore a best guess of reality which highlights the aspects that are most important to our tasks at hand which improves survival chances by reducing processing requirements (Maldonato and Dell’Orco, 2012). Both the DSM and the Operational Architectonics Theory of brain-mind (OAT) suppose that global, multisensory integration and unification into a singular conscious experience is functionally, spatially and temporally reflected in the dynamic structure of the bioelectric fields of the brain (Fingelkurts et al., 2010; and body in the DSM; Jerath et al., 2016). Further research into this mystery should investigate identifying an isomorphism in the space-time of subjective experience with the physical, bioelectric space-time of the brain."



The Default Space Model



Recurrent world models facilitate policy evolution



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