In three previous posts (here, here, and here) we talked about animal learning, particularly classical conditioning. However, some animals display complex abilities to learn that…
Tag: Animal Intelligence
In past posts we’ve looked at the ability of animals to learn and how crucial that is to their evolutionary survival. In this post, we’re…
In a past post, we talked about how animals learn using learning algorithms like classical conditioning. But Donald Campbell pointed out that evolutionary theory has…
Bart once asked me if I felt a correct summary of my “disagreement with Dennis Hackethal over animals” was that Dennis believed animals don’t create…
Is the study of Artificial General Intelligence identical to the study of consciousness? The word “consciousness” is bantered about as if it’s a specific thing.…
I wrote a post asking if humans had ‘inductive biases’ in the same sense that machine learning algorithms do. My conclusion was that they do…
This post is a continuation of my posts on Reinforcement Learning. In my previous posts, I talked up Reinforcement Learning as if it was a…