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Maybe the issue is that at that age we haven’t yet learned compressions for our memories. Maybe at that age our best option would be storing something closer to
by BriggyDwiggs42 2y ago
Maybe the issue is that at that age we haven’t yet learned compressions for our memories. Maybe at that age our best option would be storing something closer to raw experience because we don’t know enough about the world. Eg we might remember a chair as “brown, lots of orthogonal lines, about my size” rather than using our experience of other chairs.
- randcraw 2y agoYeah, I think the first chair we observe is the template for recognizing other chairs later. Surely that 'seed' chair will undergo substantial revision in time as we become aware that it wasn't the ideal basis on which to base our modeling of all chairs to come, and we unconsciously 'normalize' the model for chair in our head (and adjust that memory too). It stands to reason that this happens to all of the baseline models for the referents we learn (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc) that subsequent learning surely reshapes. This is likely comparable to the revision of 'concept' clusters that goes on in all unsupervised learning NN models, especially in humans, those that arise pre-linguistically (since words surely provide landmarks to memories enabling future retrieval). Perhaps we rewrite our early word2vec tables, making early memories less retrievable.