Notes

Representation and Perception

• Scene Representation/Perception
• Computer Graphics: Composing Modalities (Coloring, Material, Shading, Geometry, Edges, Silhouette). They generate images by putting together factors, a sort of ontogenesis of a scene.
• Perception (Computer Vision) is an Inverse Problem: going from images to the composing modalities.
• Object Recognition by Network Emergence. (To recognize a person, you need a model of the person in your cortex somewhere, there is an overlay of network fragments that in a given situation can be activated such that they together form a self-stabilizing network).

Learning

• Perception precedes Learning!
• Perception must be there at Birth.
• Learning only within the focus of attention.
• The Focus of Attention is shaped by Behavior.
• Learning is shaped by Strategy.
• Learning is gated by Emotions. (Locus Coeruleus communicates through Epinephrin, which is thought to be crucial for synaptic plasticity, hence it may play a substantial role in the memory of emotion-related events).
• Learning refines Consistency of Sensory-Motor Coordination.
• Learning takes Snapshots of Perceived Structures.

Conclusion Efficient Learning needs:

• A Functional Initial State.
• Behavioral Drive.
• Embodiment.
• Scene Representation.
• Perception.
• Focal Attention.