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Lucy and the quest for the holy grail

Lucy and the quest for the holy grail. Steve Grand NESTA Fellow Hon. Research Fellow: Biomimetics, Mech. Eng., Bath University Psychology, Cardiff University steve@cyberlife-research.com. Lucy Grand Robot www.cyberlife-research.com. STARCH. HUNGER--. Action schemata. FERTILE.

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Lucy and the quest for the holy grail

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  1. Lucy and the quest for theholy grail Steve Grand NESTA Fellow Hon. Research Fellow: Biomimetics, Mech. Eng., Bath University Psychology, Cardiff University steve@cyberlife-research.com Lucy Grand Robot www.cyberlife-research.com

  2. STARCH HUNGER-- Action schemata FERTILE CONCEPTION BIRTH Attention Reinforcement Hatch Progesterone + GLYCOGEN HEXOKINASE GLUCOSE Glucose Receptive Pain Punish Sensory schemata “Slow pain pathway” DEATH Gonadotrophin Pregnant Draw attention “Fast pain pathway” Fertile Oestrogen Sex drive HUNGER + Fear++ H2O CO2 Perceptible senses Side effects Anger++ Stimulus Pain++ DRIVE Muscles Sleepiness-- General senses Drives Verbs Nouns Sources of stimuli Male mating ritual Smack! “Flinch” reflex

  3. Oh no, what have I done?

  4. Hours of fun for the whole family

  5. mic mic amp DAC filter mouth amp PIC2 PIC1 ADC glottis MCU RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM H8S H8S H8S H8S H8S Cochlea Voice Muscles Vision RS232 Hearing I2C Vocal cords Bus i/f Bus i/f Bus i/f Bus i/f Bus i/f L.S.Olive cpld cpld cpld cpld cpld L/R volume L/R phase lungs Frequency spectrum MCU Shared RAM PSU Bus i/f cpld To PC

  6. The “intuitive” brain Feature abstraction Command sequences MUSCLES SENSES Binding Discrete signalling Feed-forward Genetically specified, Possibly ad hoc architectures

  7. Upgoing Downcoming II III IV V, VI Upcoming Downgoing YIN: Feature extraction YANG: Anticipation, attention, volition Hippocampal system SENSES SENSES ACCESSORY MOTOR HC? SENSES PRIMARY MOTOR Feedback Self-organising, Initially uniform Episodic SM SM SM SM ? Senses ? ? Muscles??? V1 Optic nerve Visual saccades

  8. desire ACTUAL (sensation) sense PROPRIO-CEPTORS FIXED DRIVE MUSCLES DESIRE (intention / expectation) Servos: attention, intention, anticipation

  9. Camera Anamorphic Centre/surround RETINA Infragranular Supragranular Layer IV V1 WTA Saccade target96 x 96 Boundary resonance & isolation96 x 96 Orientation bias96 x 96 Inhibition / normalisation Intrinsic excitation Short-range excitationLong-range inhibition Superior Colliculus(Saccade target) V2(bounded surface) From V2(attentional prime) Initial RFs RFs after learning Vertical lines only

  10. Buildup Direct from LGN (motion) Saccade targetEye-relative96 x 96 V1 infragranular(isolated boundary?) Gaze angle Transform Dome buildup96 x 96 Gain fieldgaze + targ =body-centred targ96 x 96 Proprio map Motor map Working on a self-training version Head & eye4 X 4 Head & eye4 X 4 SuperiorColliculus Neck & ocular proprioceptors Neck & ocular muscles Environmental coupling

  11. From V1 Concentric Radial Layer IV “V2” Fusion of orientation columns into macrocolumns32 X 32 Summation & wave synchronisation –rotation invariance Travelling waves – scale invariance Concentric inhibitory Concentric excitatory Prime – wave synchronisation Signature map Correlated time signatures – surface classification To V4 etc. Hypothetical “V2” To V1 attentional prime Local excite / long-range inhibit

  12. Intention Higher motorintention Progress signal Actual Servo Gain fields modulate coordinate frames for kinematics? Somatosensory Basal ganglia etc. Motor sequencing Environmental coupling

  13. Auditory Motor TEST-CARD SIGNALSExtension of ocular dominance column formation Visual

  14. “It still seems remarkable that a cell should not only be wired with the precision necessary to produce complex or hypercomplex properties, but should have duplicate sets of connections, one from each eye” David Hubel Stryker & Strickland

  15. Subliminal plugfor my books www.cyberlife-research.com Out at Christmas Very modestly priced! …and thanks to for making Lucy MkII possible

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