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My current best model of cognition involves no computation. Though arises through the amplification and dampening of information storage patterns as they are tr
by pontifier 5y ago
My current best model of cognition involves no computation. Though arises through the amplification and dampening of information storage patterns as they are translated between different pattern matching regions.
Maybe the best way to describe it is like that kids game telephone. One region takes the sensory data and first listens, then speaks some partial thought. The thought comes back out changed slightly. A fixed point occurs when the idea comes back unchanged. A resonance occurs when a fixed point is shared between different regions.
This has some relation to wave interference, and holographic information storage.
I believe this model has parts that could be useful when modeling information transfer at all size scales, from brain regions to whole brains, and even to communication between individuals and groups.
The key is to find a resonant idea that can be repeated back almost unchanged, and which can therefore be repeated to others.
Memes in the original meaning of the word have this characteristic.