7 Jul 2016 mentifex   » (Master)

Visualizing the MindGrid as Theater of Neuronal Activations

Recently we have developed the ability to visualize the MindGrid as Theater of Neuronal Activations. At the most recent, advancing front of the MindGrid, we see an inhibited trough of negative activations. We see an input sentence from a human user activating concept-fibers stretching back to the earliest edge of the MindGrid. We see an old idea becoming fresh output and then being inhibited into negative activation at its origin. We see outputs of the AGI passing through ReEntry() to re-enter the Mind as inhibited engrams while re-activating old engrams. We see the front-most trough of inhibition preventing the most recent ideas from preoccupying and monopolizing the artificial consciousness.

In ghost 174.pl, we have now commented out some code in the InStantiate() mind-module that was letting only nouns or pronouns of human input be re-activated along the length of the MindGrid. The plan now is to let all parts of an incoming sentence re-activate the engrams of its component
concepts.

Now, how do we make sure that the front-most engrams of the sentence of human input will be inhibited with negative activation in the trough of recent mental activity on the MindGrid? It appears that InStantiate() makes a sweep of old engrams to set a positive activation, and then
at the $tult penultimate-time it sets an activation for the current, front-most input. In order to keep a trough of recent inhibition, let us try setting a negative activation at the $tult time-point.

After input of "I see kids" and a response by the AI of "KIDS MAKE ROBOTS", in minddata.txt we see the sweep of positive activation of old engrams.

At t=477, "YOU" has an activation of thirty (30).

At t=518, "YOU" has an activation of thirty (30).

At t=317, 820=SEE has an activation of thirty (30).

At t=575, 528=KIDS has an activation of 62, apparently because there was also a re-entry of "KIDS".

As a result of the $tult trough-inhibition,

at t=2426, 707=YOU has a negative "-46" activation.

At t=2430, 820=SEE has a negative "-46" activation.

At t=2435, 528=KIDS has a negative -14 activation, apparently because the AI response of "KIDS MAKE ROBOTS" made a backwards sweep to impose a positive thirty-two (32) points of activation upon the pre-existing negative "-46"
points of activation, resulting in -46+32 = -14 negative points of activation -- still part of the negative trough.

Now the AGI is making its series of innate self-referential statements ("I AM A PERSON"; "I AM A ROBOT"; I AM ANDRU"; I HELP KIDS") but why is it not using SpreadAct() to jump from the reentrant concept of "KIDS" to the innate idea of "KIDS MAKE ROBOTS"? Let us see if SpreadAct() is being called, and from where. We do not see SpreadAct() being called in the diagnostic messages on-screen while
we run the AGI. Let us check the Perlmind source code. We see that the OldConcept() module since ghost162.pl was calling SpreadAct() for recognized nouns, but now we delete that snippet of code because we see in our MindGrid theater that we do not want OldConcept() to make any calls to SpreadAct(). The AGI still runs.

We see that SpreadAct() is potentially being called from the ReEntry() mind-module, but the trigger is not working properly, so we change the trigger. Then we get SpreadAct() re-activating nouns, and we begin to see a periodic association from the innate self-referential statements to "KIDS MAKE ROBOTS" and from there to "ROBOTS NEED ME". Apparently the inhibitions have to be cancelled out before the old memories can re-surface in the internal chains of
thought of the AGI.

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