From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 18:36:20 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> [Eliezer's note: It's called a "map" because connections between maps
> usually preserve topological properties - i.e., if map A is interconnected
> to map B, then neurons near in A are often near in B, and so on. So the
> default assumption is that maps, wherever they appear, implement some kind
> of sequential processing stages.]
This should probably read:
==
It's called a "map" because connections between maps usually preserve
topological properties. Suppose you have a set of neurons in region A and
a set of similarly patterned neurons in region B, with each neuron in
pattern A projecting to the corresponding neuron in pattern B, that would
be a (blatant) example of two connected maps. So the
obvious-but-untrustworthy assumption is that "maps" pass some kind of
(active) data structures through some kind of processing stages.
==
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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