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The Factal Workbench is the results of generations of refinements, as the design was reformulated over a decade or more. The entries below start with the latest most concise formulation of the mechanism. Later entries give the big picture, leading to them.
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1. 2016 Biological Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2016
UNDER DEVELOPMENT The paper to be presented at BICA16 (July 16, 2016 in New York City) UNDER DEVELOPMENT
2. 2015 The Factal Workbench 2.0
This shows the operation of several HaveNWant machines, in a series of short videos made from screen shots of the latest release.
Watch videos of the Factal Workbench in operation, and to gain an intuitive understanding of how the elements of various small machines operate together.
3. 2014 The HaveNWant Schemata
The HaveNWant Schemata describes how a particular set of one-bit parts can be connected with rules to perform some cognitive learning tasks described by Piaget. It is the description of a specific causal mechanism.
Read more about HaveNWant Schemata, and see the presentation made at the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures at MIT 11/14.
How might the HaveNWant Schema be used to do some higher level tasks.
5. 2013 Yaagil and Yiav
This describes my best guess for the “Equation of Intelligence", presented informally in back rooms at Artificial Generic Intelligence Conference (AGI-12) in Oxford, England. It describes how to build control structures out of 1-bit hierarchical bidirectional forms, and lead to the HaveNWant paper.
Read more about Yaagil and Yiav, and delve into various aspects of how they might be deployed.
6. 2012 The Grandmother Turtle Schemata
A snapshot description of a cognitive schema that lead to Yaagil and YIAV, including how it makes associations, and simulates the future.
Read the Grandmother Turtle paper.
This is an earlier paper that was presented at the memorial conference of a long-time friend Ray Solomonoff. This was in November 2011in Melbourne. The paper was also presented at the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (although it is not in the program). Read and watch the Design of a Conscious Machine
8. 2011 IEEE Robotics Group Talk
The first public presentation of thes ideas, on Tuesday February 8. It covers much of the early motivations. Read more about IEEE Robotics Group Talk
9. 2010 Simple Connectionist Mechanisms of Cognition
A 70-page pdf manuscript, which defines facts and how they act in a semantic network to form forward models in a Reenactment Simulator. Read more about Simple Connectionist Mechanisms of Cognition
10. 2009 Hebbian Arborization
Describes a theoretical method by which nerves may grow to perform Hebbian networks.
Growing sparse Hebbian networks. (2 pages) Read more about Hebbian Arborization
11. 2008 Earlier Works
Available upon request.