silber@sbphy.ucsb.edu (03/22/89)
In dreaming, common-sense reasoning is usually suspended, also the general "physics" of the world model invoked during a dream is quite different from the waking model. I am interested in any NET-speculation re: this phenomenon and its interpretation from the standpoint of a-i.
wcalvin@well.UUCP (William Calvin) (03/23/89)
See Allan Hobson's recent book, THE DREAMING BRAIN (1988), highly rec.
dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West) (03/24/89)
In article <1368@hub.ucsb.edu> silber@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes: >In dreaming, common-sense reasoning is usually suspended, [...] >I am interested in any NET-speculation re: this phenomenon and its >interpretation from the standpoint of a-i. REM sleep has been shown to promote memory consolidation. Set metaphoric_mode=on If your evaluator were an independent parallel process continuously evaluating whatever is pointed at by the current data pointer, you could get some pretty strange values during garbage collection. -David West
ins_atge@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Thomas G Edwards) (03/27/89)
In article <1368@hub.ucsb.edu> silber@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes: >In dreaming, common-sense reasoning is usually suspended, also the ... >I am interested in any NET-speculation re: this phenomenon and its >interpretation from the standpoint of a-i. In _Parallel_Distributed_Processing_ Volume 1, the chapter on Boltzman Machine learning algorithm (I think one author was T. Sejnowsky) briefly presents an allegory between the "unclamped" learning period of a Boltzman machine and dreaming. As I am far, far away from my copy of PDP, and it is habitually out of my school's library, could someone else fill in the details. -Thomas Edwards