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MindCore

Artificial General Intelligence

Thoughts on the subject:

A "logic" engine - decision engine - cognition engine
cognition - deriving "meaning"
How do we encode "meaning"? What is "meaning"?
Symbolic representation of knowledge
Meaningful manipulation of stored "knowledge" and how to interact with it


Problems:
- How to store and represent knowledge
- How to learn new knowledge
- How to interact with it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition

"The sort of mental processes described as cognitive are largely influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the past, likely starting with Thomas Aquinas, who divided the study of behavior into two broad categories: cognitive (how we know the world), and affective (how we understand the world via feelings and emotions). Consequently, this description tends to apply to processes such as memory, association, concept formation, pattern recognition, language, attention, perception, action, problem solving and mental imagery.[1][2] Traditionally, emotion was not thought of as a cognitive process. This division is now regarded as largely artificial, and much research is currently being undertaken to examine the cognitive psychology of emotion; research also includes one's awareness of their own strategies and methods of cognition called metacognition and includes metamemory."



- Need actions
- Able to interact, abstractly receive responses, encode reactions
- Adjust future actions based on responses
- Choose goals to persue, drives actions - persuit of goals based on patterns learned in the past

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The second crucial system in our brains has to do with control; it channels and harnesses all that seething energy. In particular, the prefrontal cortex reaches out to guide other parts of the brain, including the parts that govern motivation and emotion. This is the system that inhibits impulses and guides decision-making, that encourages long-term planning and delays gratification.

This control system depends much more on learning. It becomes increasingly effective throughout childhood and continues to develop during adolescence and adulthood, as we gain more experience. You come to make better decisions by making not-so-good decisions and then correcting them. You get to be a good planner by making plans, implementing them and seeing the results again and again. Expertise comes with experience. As the old joke has it, the answer to the tourist's question "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" is "Practice, practice, practice."

From: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203806504577181351486558984.html