A Wrongly Recruited Cell
- The simplest example of the Mule problem is the wrongly recruited
Neuron.
- A CA forms for a concept and it has all the right neurons. (It's
not too hard to imagine if you can construct the concept yourself.)
- Now accidently and instance of the concept is presented along with
an extra neuron.
- This increases the synaptic strength from the neuron to the CA, and
from the CA to the neuron.
- If this happens enough so that this wayward neuron is fired when
the CA ignites, then this wrong neuron has become part of the
CA.
- The synaptic strength from the CA to the neuron will be maintained
via reverberation even if it never appears in the input again.
- Has anyone here ever solved this problem? Do you know of anyone
who has? Do you have any ideas?
