Engrams
We humans (and other animals) posses the amazing ability of experiencing and remembering things along with higher modes of cognition like thoughts, ideas and feelings.
The name Engram has been given to denote the physical location and mechanisms required to process and store these bits of information. The theory seems sound, there are places in our brains where the aforementioned information is stored (where else would they be) but accessing them is still not possible, at least not directly. We make do with our communication skills to convey what we experience and know internally. The best next thing could be to take a peek inside the brain as it is working with information, but that has proven to be quite invasive and so far lacks the resolution needed to make sense of the data ( see Neuroimaging ), so we are left with the next next best thing, we can model parts of the brain artificially, create analogs and see how they experience things, the end product would be an artificial engram and that’s what we are after here.
Note: This is an excerpt/draft on a book section I've been working on part 2 of Conscious Artificial Intelligence. Why is this important ? Current AIs borrow and combine elements from Neuroscience, Statistics and other fields, the end…
