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<DIV>Howard,</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks for the complements and the thoughtful messages.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I do agree with Hawking. Currently we are in the process of quantifying the
ideas of </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>1. Latent information embedded in the complexity of the environment.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Attached is one of our paper that quantifies the notion of structural
complexity and regularity.</DIV>
<DIV>The idea is that in daily life we intuitively mix the notions related to
order vs. disorder and complexity in the sense of capacity for information. In
regularity we refer to the axis from pure random sequence to purely periodic
one. In terms of complexity both corresponds to the limit of vanishing
complexity. Maximum complexity is usually at the crossing from disorder to order
( some refer to it as the edge of chaos) but on the regular side. So you have
nested structure of variations ( variations within variations or variations on
all time scales) but embedded within some level of regularity. The idea of the
definition came from our study of real (not modelled) neural networks and
recorded brain activity. We also learned from the networks ( and my own
experience during my years in the Navy intelligence) that to extract the latent
information by searching for hidden correlations one uses the following
principle:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>2. The correlation for correlation principle.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In analogy of using periodic signal for detecting periodic signal ( like in
radio - a word you like) you have to be able to generate a spectrum of possible
frequencies until you overlap with the external one. In a similar manner to
identify hidden correlations you have to generate a large spectrum of possible
correlations. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Passing by I should mention that the ability to find hidden correlations is
what we do in science.</DIV>
<DIV>To quote Einstein :</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
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<DIV style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #009900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"It
is a glorious feeling to recognize </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #009900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">the
unification of a complex of phenomena </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #009900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">that
appear to direct sense experience </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #009900; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">as
completely separate things". </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>(In many cases we refer to a genius as one who can reveal hidden
correlations that other overlook. Well at times they cross the edge and find
correlations that do not exist but this is another story.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The next principle I proposed for the bacteria (and any other system)
is:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>3. The principle of matched complexity. The system needs an internal level
of complexity which is sufficiently high in order to extract latent information
from the external complexity.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I view this matched complexity principle the driving force of evolution
that explain the ever increasing level of complexity. In a nutshell the idea is:
A single bacterium needs some level of complexity to detect the complexity of
the surrounding environment and over the time window between replication. To
glean more information the bacteria form cooperative behaviour and generate
complex colonies. However for that each individual bacterium needs a higher
level of internal complexity for communication and to cope with its external
environment which is now has higher level of complexity - the environment
becomes both the outside and the rest of the colony. To solve the paradox
self-organization leads to the formation of functional modules and
spatio-temporal patterns. And than .. (for next time).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Additional essential point in my mind which is missed both in the new paper
and in hawking book and most of the research on neural networks is the fact that
organisms are beyond computers!. A simple statement that refers to the fact that
man made computers are subject to the limitation of Godel theorem. And they are
based on the idea of digital (Turing machine) computation. I suggest (as is now
starts to be realised) that also the brain uses analogue computation provided by
the glia cells that are 90% present of the cells in the cortex. We now know that
they regulate the synaptic connections the soma excitability and correlations
between the neurons by generation of chemical waves. I would argue that the
distributed information processing (that includes also self-reference elements -
the system changes its self according to the computation) is what sustains the
cognitive functions of the brain.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This brings us back to the bacteria.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>As Steve said they do a different kind of information processing
(distributed) than the current models of neural networks. I would add that the
brain does similar kind as well as the immune system (which is the other
cognitive functioning system of our body).</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There is much more but I do not have time to write it all down in papers (
we also do experiments in recording of brain activity using fMRI EEG and ECoG
and it takes much effort to analyse and draw conclusions.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Happy Passover, Eshel</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Eshel Ben-Jacob. <BR>Professor of Physics<BR>The Maguy-Glass
Professor
<BR>in Physics of Complex Systems </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><A
href="mailto:eshel@tamar.tau.ac.il">eshel@tamar.tau.ac.il</A>
<A href="mailto:ebenjacob@ucsd.edu">ebenjacob@ucsd.edu</A><BR>Home Page: <A
href="http://star.tau.ac.il/~eshel/">http://star.tau.ac.il/~eshel/</A><BR>Visit
<A href="http://physicaplus.org.il">http://physicaplus.org.il</A> -
PhysicaPlus<BR>the online magazine of the Israel Physical Society </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>School of Physics and
Astronomy 10/2004
-10/2005
<BR>Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics <BR>Tel 972-3-640 7845/7604 (Fax)
-6425787 University of California San
Diego
<BR>
La Jolla, CA 92093-0354 USA
<BR>
Tel (office) 1-858-534 0524 (Fax) -534 7697<BR> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=HowlBloom@aol.com
href="mailto:HowlBloom@aol.com">HowlBloom@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=paleopsych@paleopsych.org
href="mailto:paleopsych@paleopsych.org">paleopsych@paleopsych.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 23, 2005 8:02
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Paleopsych] Intelligent
Bacteria</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>
<DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>Eshel--Thanks for the papers. And you're very, very right.
You didn't get the credit you deserve for your work, which in many ways is
light years beyond most of the research that's cited in the World Science
article on Intelligent Bacteria.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And, Todd, many thanks for posting the article. It supports the
underlying arguments of The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain--that all of us
individual social animals from bacteria to humans are modules in a
collective intelligence that follows the laws of a neural net.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The article you posted even supports the notion of "inner judges" and
"self-destruct mechanisms" when it says, "<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">some
network elements can boost the strength of their own interactions."
This vaguely implies that network elements can also turn their strength
down.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">It's
unfortunate that Jeff Hawkins' model of the way the brain works hasn't been
added to the concept of the neural net. Hawkins says that individual
modules and groupings of modules in a learning machine have to extract the
repeating patterns in their environment. They have to spot
repeating themes, repeating strings of signals that come in one
note at a time like music. Hawkins compares these temporal sequences,
these strings of beads strung out on the thread of time, to
songs. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">When
a neuron or a neural grouping gets the hang of one of these songs, it names
that tune, sends the name upward to higher layers of cells, then watches out
for weirdness, for signs in the stream of inputs flowing past that hint
that the tune it called out was not the right one after all. As
long as the melody goes the way it should, the grouping of cells
keeps quiet and lets the higher layers of cortical cells go about their
business, confident that their inferiors have got a handle on the key facts of
the moment.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">When
the tune shows signs that it's NOT the one the lower cells named, then the
mistaken cells send up distress signals and bring the higher cortical elements
in to help figure out just what tune it is. Once that puzzle is solved
and the tune has been properly re-identified, the higher level cells are free
to go about more lofty business--like thinking.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">A
practical example. You're laying in bed with the lights out and the
window open, pondering Descartes and Pascal. You know the
room well, so there's norhing going on to distract you. The closet
door is slightly open. A gust of wind slips comes through
the window. You suddenly notice a really weird shadow moving
where the shadow of the closet door should be. But it looks nothing at
all like the proper shadow of a closet door. You're
alarmed. You drop your airy thinking and try to figure out just
what in the world may be intruding on you-- a break-in artist, a Munster, a
monster, or any of a dozen other frightening possibilities that flick through
your brain. Your hair stands up on the back of your neck. You are
scared witless, but you force yourself to go over to the closet door to
check. It turns out that someone .left a bathrobe on a hanger dangling
from the top of the closet door and a bag you've never seen before leaning
against the door's edge. The bag and the wind-swayed bathrobe have made
the shadow of a very strange creature, of a bizarre bigfoot or worse, of
something you've never seen or even imagined before.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Now
that you've named that tune (bag, bathrobe, wind, and door), the lower levels
of your cortex can go back to silently looking for other potential
oddities, leaving the upper layers of your cortex free to agonize
over how powerless mankind seems in the face of Pascal's immense, empty
universe. And other brain bits can try unsuccesfully to console you
with the meager fact that you think, therefore you am.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">This
picture, badly as I've put it, adds a bit more depth to the elements of the
neural net that were first explicated back in the 1980s, the model I've used
since 1986. Hawkins can upgrade your view of learning machines whether
you're using my quintet of learning machine elements or <SPAN
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J. Hellingwerf's quartet of properties of a neural net.
</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN
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I've left out is something Hawins mentions only in passing--lateral
inhibition, the competition that uptweaks some elements and down-tweaks
others. Lateral inhibition is important because it's one of
the wrinkles of Hawkins' system in which I suspect the inner judges and
resource shifters--the windfalls that hit those who've got a handle on the
problem and the horrors that descend on those who don't get it--are
hidden.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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quintet of learning machine elements, by
the way, is:</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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Enforcers</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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Generators</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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Judges</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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Shifters</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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Tournaments.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN
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four elements of a neural net are:</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">multiple sub-systems that work
in parallel.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">components that carry out
logical operations</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">auto-amplification (inner
judges)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">and</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">crosstalk</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face=Arial></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial>The odd thing
is that these lists of characteristic are not mutually exclusive, they're
additive. Each grabs a handful of the skin of a very big
elephant. It's an elephant I suspect Eshel has often
gotten both arms at least half way around.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face=Arial></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face=Arial>Onward--Howard</FONT></P></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 4/22/2005 7:13:27 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
eshel@physics.ucsd.edu writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi to
all,<BR>The new paper in trends in microibiology is quite interesting but is
limited <BR>in scope (and references) it does not give a reference to our
paper on <BR>Bacterial intelligence published in Trends just 8 months ago.
He also does <BR>not give reference to any of Bassler papers.<BR>Attached
are both papers. All the best, Eshel<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer
Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global
Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st
Century<BR>Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York
University; Core Faculty Member, The Graduate
Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder:
International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of
Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big
Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society,
Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society,
International Society for Human Ethology; advisory board member:
Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For
information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see:
www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer Principle: A
Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see
www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution
of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see
www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT></DIV></FONT><BR>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR>This
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