notes-cog-arch

Lists of cognitive architectures and relevant thoughts

• Soar
• Act
• Protoge
• Minsky's society of mind
• http://spacecollective.org/Spaceweaver
• Hecht-Nielsen's
• sigma http://cogarch.ict.usc.edu/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.08602.pdf

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_architecture

a shared global(?) 'workspace' containing Chu-space-like tables that provide:

• the labels for 'labeled lines', that is, which concepts go with which communications channels/which names go with which positional function arguments
• also, the types (in the programming language sense) for each of these channels/function argument positions

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(scifi)

OA's Sentience, Sapience, Sophonce:

• OA sentience = awareness, motivation, prediction
• OA sapience = reasoning, problem-solving
• OA sophonce = sentience + sapience + metacognition (self-awareness, self-reflection, self-reference)

"the presence of a consciousness loop organizing cognitive processing into a narrative thread" [1]

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syllabus for an imaginary book:

cognitive architectures symbolist vs connectionist, GOFAI vs pattern recognition, AGI vs other AI KR ontology human semantic linguistic universals (parts of speech etc) self-reference pattern recognition supervised learning black box vs. model based unsupervised clustering dim reduc feature learning what else? bayes nets neural nets linear regression SVMs and kernel methods random forests what else? prior knowledge, bias variance tradeoff optimization RL reasoning commonsense reasoning learning knowledge planning spiking neural nets intro to celluar neuroscience systems neuroscience cognitive psych

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