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Two-Component Scheme of Cognitive System Organization: the Hippocampus-Inspired Model

Authors:
Ekaterina D. Kazimirova

Keywords: emotion; symbol; cognitive architecture; hippocampus; industrial system

Abstract:
This paper presents a hypothesis on two-component principle of the cognitive system organization. We propose a biologically inspired architecture, which involves two subsystems, external and internal. Both subsystems are capable of compressing data by converting the images into symbols. They are connected at the symbol level, with necessary “relay” controlling their interaction. The External Subsystem reflects and processes the external image information. The Internal Subsystem reflects the internal states of the system and contains a “personal sense” of the external images; thus, it can be considered as a Library of Emotions. We propose a hypothesis that in living systems the role of a "relay" (a connector) between the external and internal libraries may be performed by the hippocampus. When applied to an artificial cognitive system, our hypothesis would imply the inclusion of certain modules (blocks), constructed in analogy with the hippocampus, into the system. This approach could be useful for designing self-regulatory systems that would account for both the external and internal factors. It may also be important for large industrial systems related to cyber-physical objects, which have hundreds of thousands of sensors; in this setting, decoupling the internal and external information may ensure efficient monitoring and protection. Technically, such two-component system could be represented as a block (modular) neural network.

Pages: 21 to 23

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: February 19, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-531-9

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from February 19, 2017 to February 23, 2017