matt: is there a name for the symbol register you refer to in both bees and humans? i would like to read more
honk honk On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 2:33 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 2:09 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Confabulation Theory that's interesting thanks for posting I heard about > that long ago. I'm always researching how thinking works across species > even insects and what makes human cognition different. > > Insect brains have no long term memory. Nor are they capable of > reinforcement learning, a prerequisite for qualia or feelings of pain > or pleasure. Everything they know was encoded in their DNA at birth, > so their only learning mechanism is evolution. Insect genome sizes are > around 500 Mb, or 1/6 the size of the human genome. > > Bees need about 10 bits of short term memory to encode the position of > pollen to communicate back to their hive. Human short term memory is > about 100 bits of symbolic information. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T72ec30e7be059220-M560e31853f8368fd7081b18c Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
