Tabula rasa learning again

I'm going to try the following; watch as a layer (in Asa H) learns cases/categories.  If the total number of categories being learned levels off, at that point only, begin to train the next layer up. Repeat for each layer on up.  I am assuming all of the input has been structured, presenting simplest patterns/categories first.  That may be a lot of work.

Boxology

Sometimes we know how to implement the boxes we draw:

But all too often in artificial intelligence/cognitive architecture work the boxes are opaque.  We have little or no idea what to put in them:

With Asa H I hope I have made clear (at least some ways in which) you can implement the boxes. (of my diagram at www.robert-w-jones.com , cognitive scientist, theory of thought and mind)

 I went on and  offered some actual code in my blogs of 10 Feb. 2011 and 14 May 2012.

Tabula rasa Asa H

When training Asa H starting from an empty case-base I typically present the simplest/smallest things (categories) first, training Asa much like we might teach a human infant.  Perhaps we should also turn off/postpone learning in the higher layers of the Asa hierarchy until the lowest layer(s) have learned the simplest/smaller categories. How long should this delay be for each layer?

Values

The objective of life is to survive, expand, and fill as much of space and time as possible.  Intelligences inherit this goal and values. A vector value would then include the agent's lifespan and the sum of the lifespans of all of the agent's offspring.  A measure of the spread of the offspring over space might also be included in this. During the agent's life it will only be able to estimate its ultimate lifespan.  Even if offspring only have one parent they will learn and evolve during their lifetimes and  only partially reflect the value/utility of their parent. Offspring lifespans will also vary.  The simple scalar utility, U=L(1+N), where L is the agent's lifespan and N is the number of offspring, is then an even cruder estimation.  When cooperative agent societies are considered, diversity, in the form of a wide range of agent specialists, should also be valued.

Hard-wiring Asa H

It may be possible to speed up Asa H by hard-wiring at least some of its functionality.  As an initial step in this direction I am loading a portion of Asa's case memory onto FPGAs.

Lone wolf

I have tended to work alone.  This is partly  my personality.  I have also been willing to change directions "on a dime."  You can't do that if you work in a group. Neither have I wanted to be confined to working on purely "mainstream" topics.  I've wanted greater freedom than that allows.

Love

Some religious thinkers and philosophers take love to be a foundational quantity.  Rather, a biological theory of love would take it to be an emergent quantity, evolved to aid in survival of offspring, family bonding, or societal bonding and cooperation.  It might be one of the primitive drives which form a part of the (imperfect) human value system.