TY - JOUR
T1 - Why the Common Model of the mind needs holographic a-priori categories
AU - Arora, Nipun
AU - West, Robert
AU - Brook, Andrew
AU - Kelly, Matthew
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been funded by an NSERC PDF and NSF grant BCS-1734304 to M. A. Kelly.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The enterprise of developing a common model of the mind aims to create a foundational architecture for rational behavior in humans. Philosopher Immanuel Kant attempted something similar in 1781. The principles laid out by Kant for pursuing this goal can shed important light on the common model project. Unfortunately, Kant's program has become hopelessly mired in philosophical hair-splitting. In this paper, we first use Kant's approach to isolate the founding conditions of rationality in humans. His philosophy lends support to Newell's knowledge level hypothesis, and together with it directs the common model enterprise to take knowledge, and not just memory, seriously as a component of the common model of the mind. We then map Kant's cognitive mechanics to the operations which are used in the current models of cognitive architecture. Finally, we argue that this mapping can pave the way to develop the ontology of the knowledge level for general intelligence. We further show how they can be actualized in a memory system using high dimensional vectors to achieve specific cognitive abilities.
AB - The enterprise of developing a common model of the mind aims to create a foundational architecture for rational behavior in humans. Philosopher Immanuel Kant attempted something similar in 1781. The principles laid out by Kant for pursuing this goal can shed important light on the common model project. Unfortunately, Kant's program has become hopelessly mired in philosophical hair-splitting. In this paper, we first use Kant's approach to isolate the founding conditions of rationality in humans. His philosophy lends support to Newell's knowledge level hypothesis, and together with it directs the common model enterprise to take knowledge, and not just memory, seriously as a component of the common model of the mind. We then map Kant's cognitive mechanics to the operations which are used in the current models of cognitive architecture. Finally, we argue that this mapping can pave the way to develop the ontology of the knowledge level for general intelligence. We further show how they can be actualized in a memory system using high dimensional vectors to achieve specific cognitive abilities.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2018.11.060
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2018.11.060
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85059452996
SN - 1877-0509
VL - 145
SP - 680
EP - 690
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
T2 - 9th Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, BICA 2018
Y2 - 22 August 2018 through 24 August 2018
ER -