Understanding Brain And Mind

A Connectionist Perspective

By: Yehuda Salu

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Hardcover | 8 November 2001

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How can we understand a system as complex as the brain? Does the brain use the same operational principles to control physical and mental activities? How can we incorporate in a model what we know and what we do not know about the brain?The connectionist model presented in this book provides tools for addressing such questions. Its nodes represent well-established biological facts combined with observations of the overall behaviors of the system. The model is based on comparing and contrasting brains, computers, and neural networks. It defines a framework for understanding the relationships between the brain and the mind. It can serve both as a starting point for developing Artificial Intelligence applications for all levels of mental activities and as a guide in the search for biological correlates of observed behaviors.

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Preface
Nodes and Neural Networks	p. 1
Representing existence and presence	p. 1
Connections	p. 7
Computers, AI, and the Model	p. 17
Computers in general	p. 17
Data representation in computers and brain models	p. 19
Operations in computers and in the model	p. 22
Organization of the model	p. 32
Modules in the Brain and in the Model	p. 39
Representing classes and items	p. 39
Detectors and projectors	p. 41
Common operations in modules	p. 41
Other peripheral modules	p. 46
Inner modules	p. 47
The Basic Concepts	p. 51
Types of concepts and their representations	p. 51
The model's initial concepts	p. 53
The basic atomic concepts	p. 54
Basic relational concepts and constructors	p. 59
Concepts involving the self	p. 88
Modeling Cognitive Processes - an Outline	p. 95
The central thinking unit (CTU)	p. 95
The retrieval process	p. 97
Formulas and substitution	p. 103
Abstraction and specification	p. 105
The roles of languages	p. 107
Conflicts	p. 111
Thinking patterns	p. 115
Dreams	p. 126
Learning	p. 128
Time and order	p. 137
Understanding	p. 144
The Model and the Simulation Program	p. 153
The Model	p. 154
The building blocks of the simulation program	p. 166
The Language Interface (brain reading)	p. 172
The Machinery of Some Mental Processes	p. 177
Thinking routines	p. 177
Action-outcome routines	p. 193
Drives	p. 199
Brain Operation Supervisor (BOS)	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 225
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