Questions on Essays on Mind Chpt. 6

Chapter 6. of D.O. Hebb's Essay on Mind explains A Phsyiological Theory of Concepts in the Brain. The theory is based around Cell Assemblies. That is groups of neurons (cells) which are mutually stimulating.

• What is a CA? (A Reverberating Circuit)
• How do Physiology, Psychology and AI relate in regards to neural nets and CAs. (pg 80.)
• What's the conflict between perception and learning? (pg. 81) How do CAs resolve the conflict?
• How do CAs account for Set and Attention(pg. 87)?
• How do CAs (and the unfamiliar) relate to emotions?
• Is there another mechanism that can account for concepts beside CAs?
• Can CAs solve the "semantic grounding" problem?

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