https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.10913.pdf
MEMO: an architecture endowed with the capacity to reason over longer distances — this was accomplished with the addition of two novel components. 1. it introduces a separation between memories/facts stored in external memory and the items that comprise these facts in external memory. 2. it makes use of an adaptive retrieval mechanism, allowing a variable number of ‘memory hops’ before the answer is produced.
During the end of my 2nd session I had the urge to curl up in a fetal pose lying on my back while in my mind images of an old, ugly man popped up. This happened right after I recalled sexual play with my elder sister as I was diggin for the root of my sexual problems. At that time, the medicine began to wear off and I couldn't go deeper.
A couple of days later, I can't sleep for two nights as I was processing... something intense. In the third night, the urge to curl up in the fetal position returned and I experience a severe panic attack. I needed help from a family member to make it through. I thought I'm gonna lose my mind or die right there - it was the worst thing I've ever experienced, I was in extreme pain.
Two similar events happened the next day, after a nights sleep with the help of 100mg seroqel, and were smiliarly intense, I was only able to handle them better because I wasn't sleep deprived. At night that day, I felt an intense rage bubble up. In my mind, two phrases repeat over and over: "OUT OF ME, OUT OF ME!" and "I'M GONNA KILL YOU, BASTARD. I'M GONNA FIND YOU AND KILL YOU!" I left the house to take a walk and calm down, but it was impossible. My body started giving me urges to move in a certain way and to rock myself, so I let it do that.
Out comes a flight-response, and both my legs start twitching on the ground in a running motion. Then, my body begins to re-enact in astonishing detail three seperate incidents of sexual abuse where I must have been penetrated orally and anally - I must have dissociated completely back then. After it was over, I felt the need to sit on the ground and I felt absolutely broken. Worhtless. Like wanting to die.
Now I have outbursts of rage, my body wants to squeeze all its muscles and I want to growl and punch things. My tounge wants to push something out of my mouth and my chaws and buttocks clench together tightly as to shut themselves tight. But positive things are hapenning aswell. A lot of overly tight muscles are releasing tension and my body posture and walking patterns (seriously, I WALK and carry myself much different since my body released the flight response - IT FEELS LIKE AN EXORCISM HAPPENED) are improving by the day - I have urges to stretch some muscles and tighten others. It's miraculous. I have a lot of energy and could walk all day and get stuff done. Even though my mood hasn't fully recovered and I am rather gloomy.
I have it under control and this only happens when I give my body pe
... keep reading on reddit ➡As a follow-up to this post, please see here another article on episodic memory vs semantic memory.
Based on how "episodic memory" (aka flashbulb memory) is described here, it sounds like it is the equivalent of what in the Mandela Effect community is called an anchor memory (or what I call an anchor experience).
From the article:
"Semantic memories are just facts and knowledge that we have about the world, there is no mental time travel involved. Semantic memories include things like vocabulary, mathematics, recalling state capitals, and things of that nature. For example, I know how to drive a car, sadly I can’t remember the learning process, it might have been an episodic memory at one time, but it is so insignificant now, it is just something that almost runs on autopilot."
My semantic memory is that it was called "Chic-fil-a", and one episodic memory (anchor experience) I have is of waiting in the drive-thru and comparing the spelling on the restaurant sign to the spelling on the sign the cow was holding.
I think the Mandela Effect is from false memories somehow implanted via the frequencies of the wireless infrastructure - most recently, I am beginning to suspect that both the old versions of things we remember and their associated anchor experiences - are false implants. As to how this is possible, I am utterly baffled and stupefied - but I think that maybe this is being done by accessing a) semantic memories and b) isolated episodic memories (anchor experiences).
Episodic memory is responsible for times, places, associated emotions, and other contextual who, what, when, where, why knowledge.
I am asking more whether you are able to find memories without remembering the information above. In a sense whether it always causes emotion association problem or whether you can have problems with it and still be able use emotions to pinpoint memories without remembering when it happened exactly
To my understanding, our sense of smell can trigger very intense episodic recall because it ties into the hippocampus through the piriform cortex, amygdala, and EC.
I can't seem to find much info on semantic recall and olfactory stimuli though, and now that I think about it, I can't really think of a time where a particular smell has triggered any facts or concepts.
Thanks!
On the difficult path to developing AGI technology, we must at some point have a very clear idea of specific mental abilities that have not been faithfully performed by our current tech. We must identify them, document them, and set about tackling them. With a clear and coherent exposition of where our technology fails against the powers of the human brain, we may find insights that reveal the crux of our misapprehensions. The research agenda : Identify what machines can't do then make them do that.
#Occluded Object Vision
Academically, when a vision system is able to break 5% of CAPTCHAs, that CAPTCHA method is considered "broken". In 2019, our state-of-the-art vision systems can read 60% of CAPTCHAs. For AGI researchers, this leaves a burning question: What the heck are those 40% that our agents cannot read?
Let me show you them.
https://i.imgur.com/SdZlidz.png
I will point your attention to the CAPTCHA circled in brown. So that's showing a black A-silhouette in front of bushes. A similar scenario happens in the bottom right, where a black A floats in front of a 3D scene of a swirly painted vortex. In addition to CAPTCHAs, we can examine those simple shapes that confound vision systems meant to reason about Bongard Problems. After seeing many such failures, it eventually becomes evident that these failures always seem to occur in situations where the vision system must infer 3 dimensions. Something is either "in front of" something else, or the vision system must perceive that the line is more like a strand of spaghetti laying "on top of" itself. In any case, there is a "background" with a pattern and a "foreground" object situated in "front" of it. It appears that training a naive machine learning system only on 2-dimensional datasets, will never somehow bootstrap to the type of vision that is capable of inferring three dimensions in flat imagery.
Narrow vision systems certainly have a use in deploy-able software, no argument there, but for AGI research the hurdles are very different. Training sets are prepared by machine learning researchers who know ahead of time that the cluttered backgrounds must be removed, cropped out, or defocused enough so that the learning process is not "confused" by those other objects, or portions of them. In contrast, the human brain has incorporated the identification of shapes moving "in front of" the clutter of forest and jungle "behi
... keep reading on reddit ➡abstract — Episodic memory (EM) involves re-experiencing past experiences by means of mental imagery. Aphantasics (who lack mental imagery) and people with severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) lack the ability to re-experience, which would imply that they don't have EM. However, aphantasics and people with SDAM have personal and affective memories, which are other defining aspects of EM (in addition to re-experiencing). This suggests that these supposed aspects of EM really are independent faculties or modules of memory, and that EM is a composite faculty rather than a natural kind. Apparent varieties of (normal and "defective") EM (as well as some closely related kinds of memory) are different combinations of these modules, and the EM construct itself adds little if any explanatory value to these modules.
download link — https://www.academia.edu/40683365/Aphantasia_SDAM_and_Episodic_Memory
I cannot seem to find a definitive answer by googling.
E.g. Three people (A, B and C) are friends. B tells A that C got married, and A remembered this event (C got married), despite that A didn't attend the wedding. Is it considered episodic or semantic memory for A?
Thanks!
Is the brain doing something substantially different when someone is accessing their semantic memory versus their episodic memory?
Might one kind of memory inhibit the other for reasons having do with how the brain handles these separate ways of remembering things?
I just finished reading Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, in which he discusses how we have two "selves" -- an experiencing self that tracks realtime sensory experience, and a remembering self that summarizes episodes of experience into memories.
I'm curious if there has been any research on how the remembering self chooses what parts of the sensory flow to include in its summaries. Do different people select different things for their episodic memories? How does the summarizing self know when to start and stop an "episode"?
Any help/references would be appreciated!
Now that I know I can’t seem to make or create episodic memories is this because sensory experiences are needed to create them?
