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Functional Brain Anatomy for AIs
As part of my research into AIs I’ve spent quite some time reading Neuroscience books looking for answers that can help bridge the functional AIs we now have and future ones that might compete with human intelligence and behavior ( AGI or AIs with general intelligence or in my interest case self aware AIs or CAIs Conscious Artificial Intelligences ).
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Current AIs and ANNs benefit from a number of other fields, computer science, statistics, math and on and on, as such they are not always based or bound by Biology, whats more they seem to have no problem arriving at intelligent outcomes like speech & pattern recognition, this goes to say that we might arrive at higher forms of AI like AGI without necessarily mimicking biological brains, it turns out there might be multiple ways to accomplish intelligent behavior.The big picture:
Let’s start from the deep end with the most basic functional division:
So what does a Brain do ? From a systems point of view the brain produces behavior which can be summarized as external and internal "action", the first gotcha here is that while producing said action we also generate internal states that are akin to external sensory experiences but experienced internally, so ideas, feelings and dreams are also products of the brain yet at this stage I think it's better to not include them in systemic divisions as to simplify things.Also note that the action cortex is divided in 2 ( I've included the cerebellum which deals with…
