I think humans are amnesic every day, say when reading the news!
Claude; ""The doctrine of anamnesis, as presented in Plato's "Meno," suggests that learning is a process of recollection, and individuals have innate knowledge that is brought to consciousness through questioning and inquiry." https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2023/12/anamnesis-and-large-language-models.html
Bill you say in above post... "now that I have a more sophisticated and more abstract understanding of memory." And you again Bill, and a good question... "Remembrance works best is there our current mental state resonates with our mental state during the original experience; this resonance is (hypothesized to be) a function of neurochemistry. But what if you can’t establish that resonance? Does that mean that your memory of that experience is gone, at least until you can establish resonance? " https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2024/11/3qd-catch-up-affective-technology.html
Claude; "So the challenge is: "How can we design a system that varies the specificity or scope of the probe, allowing it to search narrowly or broadly, sharply or fuzzily, depending on its current mode of operation? https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/08/my-quick-take-on-state-of-ai-way-forward.html
By funding... Carlos Lois & team genetically knock out Zebra finches "song" genes. Song degrades but... after 12 days the song returns! Where from? We don’t even know what, where and how of memories!
"Birds Overcome Brain Damage to Sing Again May 02, 2024 "Every year, more than 795,000 people experience having a stroke, often resulting in brain damage that impairs their ability to speak, walk, or perform tasks. Fortunately, in many cases, these abilities can be regained through physical therapy. With practice, our brains have remarkable abilities to rewire and repair themselves after damage. ... "Researchers in the laboratory of Carlos Lois, research professor of biology at Caltech, use small birds called zebra finches to study how brains rewire themselves to regain essential functionality after damage. In a new paper, they discover that zebra finches can reacquire the ability to sing after brain damage similar to stroke victims—but without practice.
"Imagine a pianist who suffers some kind of brain damage and is unable to play the piano," Lois says. "But one day, they wake up and can suddenly play again. Somehow, their brain was able to rewire itself and access the ability to play without any practice. This is what we found in songbirds." The new study appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience on April 29. ... Published: 29 April 2024 "Unsupervised restoration of a complex learned behavior after large-scale neuronal perturbation" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01630-6
And re "Image generation through coupled oscillation" "Today we're releasing our first model, Un-0: an image generator where a physical system (a network of coupled Kuramoto oscillators) carries out most of the computation."...
Leading to one of my faves... "The Math of How Crickets, Starlings, and Neurons Sync Up" https://www.wired.com/story/the-math-of-how-crickets-starlings-and-neurons-sync-up/
Thanks for reminding me of that 12.31 post. I'd completely forgotten that. So, it took me a little over a month of playing with ChatGPT to decide it was an associative memory, something I've been thinking about since 1969, when Karl Pribram published and argument about neural holography in Scientific American. As for coupled oscillation, I've been on to it since the late 70s. Steven Strogatz published an article about coupled oscillation among fireflies, again, in Scientific American. I've got scads of posts on it: https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/search/label/synchrony
I think humans are amnesic every day, say when reading the news!
ReplyDeleteClaude; ""The doctrine of anamnesis, as presented in Plato's "Meno," suggests that learning is a process of recollection, and individuals have innate knowledge that is brought to consciousness through questioning and inquiry."
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2023/12/anamnesis-and-large-language-models.html
Bill you say in above post... "now that I have a more sophisticated and more abstract understanding of memory."
And you again Bill, and a good question...
"Remembrance works best is there our current mental state resonates with our mental state during the original experience; this resonance is (hypothesized to be) a function of neurochemistry. But what if you can’t establish that resonance? Does that mean that your memory of that experience is gone, at least until you can establish resonance? "
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2024/11/3qd-catch-up-affective-technology.html
Claude; "So the challenge is:
"How can we design a system that varies the specificity or scope of the probe, allowing it to search narrowly or broadly, sharply or fuzzily, depending on its current mode of operation?
https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2025/08/my-quick-take-on-state-of-ai-way-forward.html
By funding...
Carlos Lois & team genetically knock out Zebra finches "song" genes. Song degrades but... after 12 days the song returns! Where from? We don’t even know what, where and how of memories!
"Birds Overcome Brain Damage to Sing Again
May 02, 2024
"Every year, more than 795,000 people experience having a stroke, often resulting in brain damage that impairs their ability to speak, walk, or perform tasks. Fortunately, in many cases, these abilities can be regained through physical therapy. With practice, our brains have remarkable abilities to rewire and repair themselves after damage.
...
"Researchers in the laboratory of Carlos Lois, research professor of biology at Caltech, use small birds called zebra finches to study how brains rewire themselves to regain essential functionality after damage. In a new paper, they discover that zebra finches can reacquire the ability to sing after brain damage similar to stroke victims—but without practice.
"Imagine a pianist who suffers some kind of brain damage and is unable to play the piano," Lois says. "But one day, they wake up and can suddenly play again. Somehow, their brain was able to rewire itself and access the ability to play without any practice. This is what we found in songbirds."
The new study appears in the journal Nature Neuroscience on April 29.
...
Published: 29 April 2024
"Unsupervised restoration of a complex learned behavior after large-scale neuronal perturbation"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01630-6
And re "Image generation through coupled oscillation"
"Today we're releasing our first model, Un-0: an image generator where a physical system (a network of coupled Kuramoto oscillators) carries out most of the computation."...
Leading to one of my faves...
"The Math of How Crickets, Starlings, and Neurons Sync Up"
https://www.wired.com/story/the-math-of-how-crickets-starlings-and-neurons-sync-up/
Cheers,
SD
Thanks for reminding me of that 12.31 post. I'd completely forgotten that. So, it took me a little over a month of playing with ChatGPT to decide it was an associative memory, something I've been thinking about since 1969, when Karl Pribram published and argument about neural holography in Scientific American. As for coupled oscillation, I've been on to it since the late 70s. Steven Strogatz published an article about coupled oscillation among fireflies, again, in Scientific American. I've got scads of posts on it: https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/search/label/synchrony
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