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A Model of a Mind
This article explains a simple model of how minds might work. I’m motivated by the success of AI-based language models to look at the future of digital minds.
I’m using the word “emotion” in a broad sense meant to include pleasure, pain, boredom, happiness, frustration, and any combination of states of mind that have a not-purely-rational feeling associated with them. Similar pattern-recognition exists for more interesting contexts, from games like chess to real-world challenges, such as writing fiction (understanding tropes, audience reactions, dealing with narrative road-blocks), or running a business. Another example of a thinking style is an inner voice, which is a special case of the feedback loop where the output of your action model makes use of the language decoder, translating non-verbal concepts into a verbal sequence.
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