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- [The one-celled organism's] existence, being an indicator representing the abstract state of an external phenomenon, also embodies very rudimentary symbolic meaning.
-Chapter 3 : Machine Based Consciousnes
- Becaue its existence is an indication containing meaning regarding its own experiences, the organism now embodies the concept of a uniquely expressible self, with an expressed subjective experience.
-Chapter 3 : Machine Based Consciousness
- Even if all other facilities to support consciousness are in place, it will not be capable of using them, if denied the ability to interact with a complex milieu.
Chapter 9: What Now (Robots)
- We perceive three dimensions in these two flat scenes because our brain generalizes the three dimensions we have experienced with all our senses, and constructs the three dimensional perception.
-Chapter 4 : Our Metaphysical Tool Shed
- The practical upshot of this is that it gives adaptive systems, such as robotics, a present moment.
-Chapter 5 : Learning
- In this new diagram it can clearly be seen that the external world represents nothing more than a very complex dynamic transfer function, which is performed on the feedback signals on their way back into the network.
-Chapter 6 : Neural Network Structures
- Essentially, if we take both directions into account, it is the world changing the network, changing the world, changing the network, ... ad infinitum.
-Chapter 6 : Neural Network Structures
- Last, but certainly not least: the population of similar cells simply could not learn, or exhibit any of the behaviors described, if they had no external environment with which to interact.
-Chapter 3 : Machine Based Consciousness
- On the other hand, consider the abstract concept of pure unsupervised learning. In a practical sense, this isn't really possible or doable either. If you place a learner directly into an isolation tank at birth, it will not learn.
-Chapter 5 : Learning
- To summarize, feedback loops of signals originating in the brain and returning can remain inside the brain, go outside the brain but remain inside the organism, or include complex chains of causal activities completely outside of the organism.
-Chapter 6: Neural Network Structure
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