Gary Basin, garfeild06 at aol.com, wrote on Sun, 24 Oct 1999:
> Lets say I'm making a very complex simulation of fish using
> GA's, dynamic environment, and an NN. My question is, for
> example, the fish start out with an empty brain (no connections
> or concepts formed) then they would learn how to breathe
> through their gills, etc. etc. and they start learning.
> So how are these concepts saved in their brains? I want
> them to be able to develop their own language, maybe one
> species will develop language by flashes of light, maybe
> some other would develop a language by making bubbles,
> or formations of some sort. I know that the concepts in
> their brains wouldn't be language dependent.
But the concepts would be dependent upon nerve fibers that
stand apart from the parallel channels of input and output.
For a diagrammatic schema of concepts in the brain, please
see below, and for a software implementation, please see
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/mind-fpc.html
> We express
> our connections in our brain in english, but what if we
> know another language too? I know that the concepts are
> not based on any language, so maybe the concepts are made
> up of combinations of inputs and outputs that'll recognize
> the lets say object your refering to, for example:
> Concept: Food
> looks like food - input from eyes
> smells like food - input from nose
> tastes like food - input from mouth
> feels like food - input from hands
> (of course 'food' wont necessarily pass all these tests, but im
> just showing an example)
> ??
> - Gary Basin - Choo!! Choo!! [...] [...]
<PRE>
Hearing Vision The Evolution of Concepts Motor Output
/iiiiiii\ /!i!i!i!\ Primitive Verbal Abstract /YYYYYYYYYYYY\
| ||||||| || ||||||| | + + + + + | |||||!|||!|| |
| ||||||| || | ___ | | + + / \ + + | |||||!|||!|| |
| ||||||| || / \ | + + / \ + + | |||||!|||!|| |
| ||||||| || (image)-|--+ + (blood) +---+ | |||||R|||!|| |
| ||||||| || \___/ | / \ + \ / __+__ + | |||||U|||!|| |
| ||||||| || |(red) + \ / (dan- )+ | |||||N|||F|| |
| ||||||| || | \ / +----+ \ger/-|----|------*|||I|| |
| ||||||| || | +---|----+ \ / _+_ | |||||||||G|| |
| ||||||| || | + + +------+ / \ | |||||||||H|| |
| ||||||| || | + / \ + +(cour-) | |||||||||T|| |
| ||||||| || | + (wet) + + \age/--|----------*|| |
| ||||||| || | + \ / + + \_/ | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| || | + + + + + | |||||||||||| |
</PRE>
