Prerequisites to Solve the Mule Problem
- To solve the mule problem, somehow the externally presented item must
change the CA.
- How can you do this:
- Get Rid of reverberation. I actually did this for the IR and
categorisation experiments. It is a powerful system, but
it really isn't CAs.
- Externally Activated Neurons Fire More Frequently
- neurons that are being excited
externally fire at a higher rate than neurons that are
being fired by reverberation.
- Our current fatigue (add X if your fire, subtract Y if you don't
fatigue raises firing threshold) does this only marginally,
and not at all the longer you present.
- This would increase the synaptic weight within the new
items.
- Learn more if not fatigued. The current
learning rule doesn't do this. It seems counter intuitive.
- Some non-local mechanism that tries to make CAs smaller by
for instance global inhibition.
- Others?
