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Re: The Human Brain
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Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:48:24 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <lmartins@=saynotospam=marktest.pt>
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Hello,
I'm a common C++ programmer, so I don't know much about the human brain.
To tell the truth I don't recall ever reading about it, so my points of view are probably of little interest compared for instance with some books that may be easy to find about the subject.
Anyway, here it goes:
At 13:18 04-08-2000 Friday, rohanpatel wrote:
> the Human brain consists of
> in order
> 1) WILL - our will to do something , for eg:- the will of oneself to be famous, or rich , or make something etc, is the higest of importace . the stimulus to do something .
WILL is a "need". A need that is ultimately controlled by primitive instincts.
"I need food" - Natural instinct to eat
"I need to succeed in life" - Cultural pression to be better. Besides this example seems complex, I'm sure it can be traced to some basic instinct(s) also.
> 2) EMOTIONS - the emotions like feelings , of love , hatred , weeping, Fear etc
Emotions seem to be proportional to the intelligence of the animal (gray mass).
Emotions like we know them probably arise naturally as soon as you reach a certain threshold of gray mass.
> 3) INTELLECT/UNDERSTANDING - the intelligence, and understanding of a person regarding the enviroment and oneself
I think an animal without any memory of past events can not understand things. On the other hand it may understand it based solely on instincts, but these are very limited.
So the understanding of the environment seems proportional to the amount of recorded events in the memory.
> 4) MEMORY - the memories of past and present (long term and short term memories)
Long & short term are a crude simplification, there are many more levels.
The important fact is that a memory seems to get more persistent the more it's accessed. The less it's accessed, the faster is forgotten.
Also, there is no read-only memory. Every time a memory get's refreshed, it can change it's contents.
Also, a memory is not a single pointer to an address of memory. It's an array to pointers (each with it's intensity) that fit toguether.
Example: "A white window" - Because an image is made of several parts like the window frame (wood), the color (white), the glass etc, each element (wood, white, glass) was already taken from previous memories (pointers from previous memories).
If later I learn that the glass is breakable in another memory, I can later say that the glass of that window must be also breakable.
> 5') and then comes the physical body
Once again, non boolean orders would be optimal (with feedback reading).
In a mechanical claw, instead of saying "go forward", you should be able to say "go forward, gently!"
I think you forgot a important point -> INSTINCT.
Instinct is the basis of animal behavior (passed by DNA?).
Luckily it also seems to be one of the most easy aspects to implement in a robot.
I hope my philosophical points of view are interesting to you.
Thank you for your support! :-)
Laurentino Martins
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