Anigrafs : experiments in cooperative cognitive architecture / Whitman Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Whitman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Group decision making.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this book, Whitman Richards offers a novel and provocative proposal for understanding decision making and human behavior. Building on Valentino Braitenberg's famous 'vehicles, ' Richards describes a collection of mental organisms that he calls 'daemons'--virtual correlates of neural modules. Daemons have favored choices and make decisions that control behaviors of the group to which they belong, with each daemon preferring a different outcome. Richards arranges these preferences in graphs, linking similar choices, which thus reinforce each other. 'Anigrafs' refers to these two components--animals, or the mental organisms (agents or daemons), and the graphs that show similarity relations. Together these two components are the basis of a new cognitive architecture. In Richards's account, a collection of daemons compete for control of the cognitive system in which they reside; the challenge is to get the daemons to agree on one of many choices. Richards explores the results of group decisions, emphasizing the Condorcet voting procedure for aggregating preferences. A neural mechanism is proposed. Anigrafs presents a series of group decisions that incorporate simple and complex movements, as well as aspects of cognition and belief. Anigrafs concludes with a section on 'metagrafs, ' which chart relationships between different anigraf models"--MIT CogNet.

Contents:

Foreword

Preliminaries : from babble to barter

From vehicles to anigrafs

Intrinsic knowledge

Social connections: bartering

Anigraf abstraction

Animacy [action-agents]

Anigraf1

Anigraf2 : swimmers : beginning to move

Anigraf3: walkers : syncopated limbs

Anigraf4: tally machines

Cognition : agents with beliefs

Anigraf5: dancers : mating games

Anigraf6: planners : event sequencing

Anigraf7: explorers : new worlds

Anigraf8: alliances : coordinating diversity

Metagrafs

Representational forms

Epilogue

Appendices

Bibliography

Phase plots

Glossary

Commentaries

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-32911-5

OCLC:

908146137