toaomalkster/conscious-calculator

A research project into the underlying mechanisms of consciousness, and an emulation of a calculator that is conscious.

Research into Consciousness

This site is a collection of theoretical works on the mechanisms behind consciousness and conscious experience. Later I plan to build software emulation of some of those mechanisms.

Theory

Discussions on theoretical background are available from here:

• Theory Home

Code

What's currently there is all out of date and not worth anything. Don't bother with it.

Contact

my.name at gmail.

conscious-calculator's Issues

Revise Memory,Event,Percept Representations and Type Wrapping

As per "Memory, Events and Percepts - A discussion on Representation" page.

TODO - phase 1:

• LongTermMemory story Events and Percepts as first-class objects.
  • PerceptEvents are only used for historical memories of inputs that have been "perceived".
• LongTermMemory .search() returns List (where Object is always either Event or Percept)
• LongTermMemorySearchProcessor no longer needs to un-wrap PerceptEvents into Percepts.
• In first cut, MemoryEvent kept but changed to be able to store arbitrary objects, and then used to store List.
• FindMatchingConceptProcessor updated as needed when handling the MemoryEvent.

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TODO - phase 2:

• Processors to return Events without timestamp, and with triggering Event(s) in references.
• Processors emit with their own totally ego-centric strength.
• AA uses references to decide on relative strength of the event.
• AA sets timestamp.
• Get rid of use of 'HANDLED' flag
• Should be able to create a very simple DSL for emitting Event that automatically tracks whether the event has already been emitted, taking that complexity out of the processors. ie: make processors more stateless and to just work immediately off what's in WM. I wonder how far this could be taken? See wiki page "Processors-like-Cloud-Lambda-Functions".

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TODO - phase 3:

• Consider whether to remove the existence of MemoryEvent altogether
  • Requires LTM results to be stored as individual items (un-collected) into WM.

Host on Heroku

• Prerequisites: Depends on #4
• Host publicly on Heroku, with extremely basic username/password protection.
• Add reference in README

Publish notes to Wiki

Silence all those TRACE events if they're just repeats

Nice to have - silence all those TRACE events if they're just repeats:

00:01:14 [main] TRACE EquationEvaluationPr - Unable to evaluate PerceptEvent{8ffb0,7ms,0.068,ref=0efb6,Equation#3b3...
00:01:14 [main] TRACE Emulator             - Events: [[MemorySearchRequestEvent{6cfa6,1ms,0.078,ref=8ffb0,Equation#...
00:01:14 [main] DEBUG WorkingMemory        - WM Add:     MemorySearchRequestEvent{6cfa6,2ms,0.078,ref=8ffb0,Equatio...
00:01:14 [main] TRACE EquationEvaluationPr - Unable to evaluate PerceptEvent{8ffb0,19ms,0.058,ref=0efb6,Equation#3b...
00:01:14 [main] TRACE FindMatchingConceptP - Blocked event emit because already present and unhandled in WM: Memory...
00:01:14 [main] TRACE Emulator             - Events: []
00:01:14 [main] TRACE EquationEvaluationPr - Unable to evaluate PerceptEvent{8ffb0,21ms,0.048,ref=0efb6,Equation#3b...
00:01:14 [main] TRACE FindMatchingConceptP - Blocked event emit because already present and unhandled in WM: Memory...
00:01:14 [main] TRACE Emulator             - Events: []
00:01:14 [main] TRACE EquationEvaluationPr - Unable to evaluate PerceptEvent{8ffb0,22ms,0.038,ref=0efb6,Equation#3b...
00:01:14 [main] TRACE FindMatchingConceptP - Blocked event emit because already present and unhandled in WM: Memory...
00:01:14 [main] TRACE Emulator             - Events: []
00:01:14 [main] TRACE EquationEvaluationPr - Unable to evaluate PerceptEvent{8ffb0,23ms,0.028,ref=0efb6,Equation#3b...
00:01:14 [main] TRACE FindMatchingConceptP - Blocked event emit because already present and unhandled in WM: Memory...

Originally posted by @toaomalkster in #6 (comment)

Prepare repo for public access

• Add license headers to all files, presumably using maven plugin
• Add '@author' tags
• Fill in the readme

Not writing the expression parsed PerceptEvent into STM

Bug - it's not writing the PerceptEvent into STM:

STM Add:    MemoryEvent{179fc,1ms,0.500,{eventData:3 + ? = 8,eventType:TextRequestEvent}}
STM Add:    MemoryEvent{b0cdd,0ms,0.600,{eventData:true,eventType:StuckThoughtEvent}}

I think that should include

PerceptEvent{8ffb0,19ms,0.058,ref=0efb6,Equation#3b388[Number#a6fea(3) Operator#48bb5(+) ExpressionToken#6221f(?) EquationOperator#1c814(=) Number#0fb94(8)]}

Part of the problem is that I think I've missed a step:

1. Try to parse -> PerceptEvent with low priority due to parse errors
2. Try to evaluate -> Stuck.
3. Parser should see Stuck flag and upgrade the strength.
4. Now PerceptEvent becomes top and gets copied to STM.
5. Still nothing else happening -> Stuck, again.
6. Now try loading concept from LTM.

Originally posted by @toaomalkster in #6 (comment)

Add good README and docs

Some tips
https://dmitripavlutin.com/how-to-make-your-open-source-project-successful/

Stuck Thought Event Creation

Processor to receive StuckThoughtEvent from Interceptor and to decide what to do with it before it gets emitted. Should be able to enhance/subdue the event emitted by the interceptor.

Should identify what the end of the chain of thought is, rather than flagging against some arbitrary event.

Could possibly create TriedAttemptsEvent, or even store in StuckThoughtEvent, or could leave that to a subsequent processor.

Story - Initial implementation

ththth

Be able to solve "3 + ? = 8" without assistance

TODO:

• Fix PerceptEvent not entering STM (tracked in another issue)

Add UI

• CLI
• Web App
• Separated Web App front-end from Emulator+REST API for faster build/run cycle times.
• Javalin or Spark Framework for REST API.
• Some sort of queuing mechanism between UI and Emulator