AlbertoGP a day ago

A particularly interesting part that I did not expect from the title:

> Before the rats encountered the detour, the research team observed that their brains were already firing in patterns that seemed to "imagine" alternate unfamiliar mental routes while they slept. When the researchers compared these sleep patterns to the neural activity during the actual detour, some of them matched.

> “What was surprising was that the rats' brains were already prepared for this novel detour before they ever encountered it,”

mycall 13 hours ago

> The same brain networks that normally help us imagine shortcuts or possibilities can, when disrupted, trap us in intrusive memories or hallucinations.

There is a fine line between this an wisdom. The Default Mode Network (DMN) is the brain's "simulation machine". When you're not focused on a specific task, the DMN fires up, allowing you to daydream, remember the past, plan for the future, and contemplate others' perspectives.

Wisdom is not about turning the machine off; it's about becoming the director of the movie it's playing. A creative genius envisioning a new world and a person trapped in a state of torment isn't the hardware, but the learned software of regulation, awareness, and perspective.

Wisdom is the process of learning to aim this incredible, imaginative power toward flourishing instead of suffering. Saying "trap us in intrusive memories or hallucinations" is the negative side where there is also a positive side to it all.

aatd86 a day ago

The way it is phrased, looks like a pre computed model confronted to real data. So... our current AIs except we have incremental continuous training (accumulated experience)?

And dreams are simulation-based training to make life easier, decision-making more efficient?

What kind of next level machinery is this?! ;D

_spduchamp a day ago

I wonder if this also relates to playing music.

AndrewKemendo a day ago

This matches my hypothesis on Deja vu

https://kemendo.com/Deja-Vu-Experiment.html

I think it also supports my three loops hypothesis as well:

https://kemendo.com/ThreeLoops.html

In effect, my position is that biological systems maintain a synchronized processing pipeline: where the hippocampal prediction system operates slightly “ahead” of sensory processing, like a cache buffer.

If the processing gets “behind” the sensory input then you feel like you’re accessing memory because the electrical signal is reaching memory and sensory distribution simultaneously or slightly lagging.

So it means you’re constantly switching between your world map and the input and comparing them just to stabilize a “linear” experience - something which is a necessity for corporeal prediction and reaction.

  • OgsyedIE a day ago

    Your work seems pretty good to me, have you seen Steven Byrne's blog theorising about symbol grounding in the brain?

    • AndrewKemendo a day ago

      No I havent, I’ll have to look it up, thanks for the recommendation.