Functional Brain Anatomy for AIs

Systems 07: Odds & Ends

Keno Leon
9 min readJul 18, 2022

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The brain is the ultimate complex thing in our admittedly self centered universe yet as complex things go a methodical systems approach can be very helpful in understanding and explaining away the complexity, in this series of short posts I’ve additionally tried to keep an eye out for the AI/Artificial Analogs we currently have and the missing bits needed to make new and novel AIs, namely AGIs (Artificial General Intelligences ) and CAIs (Conscious Artificial Intelligences), in this the last post I want to briefly go over some functional missing parts before wrapping things up…

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Emotion

Emotions can roughly be defined as “Neurological processes that have evolved to guide behavior in such a manner as to increase survival and reproduction” (Gazzaniga), but as cognitive neuroscientists will tell you there is little consensus in the definition and a ton of theories on how they work,more narrowly emotions are individually graded (or valenced) positive or negative…

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