Natural Intelligence in Artificial Creatures

Abstract: This memory can be seen as a generalization of the working memory for novel foods introduced in chapter 5. In that simple working memory, only the sickness sensor could recall the stored memory. For a more general working memory, any sufficiently specific subschema from any modality should recall the entire sensory schema with which it was stored. For example, the activation of a place representation will read out the expectations of the stimulus that will be perceived at that location. In...