Monday, April 14, 2008

Inside the Mind


Really, to make an AI machine we are trying to replicate the process that the mind produces. So it is vital to dissect the human brain (not literally), to understand what is going on in the mind. But the trouble is finding which part of the brain does what functions. I like to picture the mind being broken up into 3 different parts.

1. Emotion - This part of your brain would react off your senses, or experiences. Your body needs emotions to survive, and to gain moral life skills. From the womb, your senses come to play, different emotions that children feel, tell them how they react.
2. Rational - This part of your brain strays away from emotions, and uses intellectual, more sound ideas to deal with a situation. The mind needs this part of your brain to take things that your emotions set out and make them rational.
3. Motor Skills - This part of your brain takes the Emotion and Rational parts of your brain and sends out messages to your body so that your body can move and make motions to react in its environment.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

interesting 3 part breakdown. Could an analog be drawn between the 3 capabilities of the brain and a 3 tiered architecture, presentation, application, and state. This is analogous to the emotional, rationalizing and memory/motor skills.