Intelligence and embodiment: A statistical mechanics approach

Chinea, Alejandro; Korutcheva, Elka

doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2013.01.007

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“…The intelligence and embodiment hypothesis [28] subscribes to the idea of cognition as an evolutionary adaptational redeployment of movement control [31]. This term is used to express, from an evolutionary perspective the idea that the extensive neuronal machinery developed to control animal movement was expanded to control new brain structures instead of muscles ( Figure 1).…”

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“…Specifically, they are modeled in terms of permutations operations between symbols. [28]. This hypothesis postulates the existence of a common information-processing principle being exploited by the nervous systems that evolved from nature as the basis for the emergence of intelligence.…”

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“…The cognitive architecture [28] models with a certain level of abstraction the patterns of functional connectivity that are observed between regions of the cerebral cortex and its homologues. It is important to emphasize that the constraints imposed by the structural connectivity in the functional interactions cause that the topological parameters are generally conserved between structural and functional networks [54].…”

Section: An Extension Of the Mathematical Model Of The Hypothesismentioning

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“…General example of the Cayley-like structures used by the cognitive architecture of the intelligence and embodiment hypothesis [28]. It is important to remember that the branching factor associated to each level is fixed for all the nodes belonging to that level and represented by the variables m i where 1 ≤ i ≤ k, for instance, the branching factor of level 1 is represented by the variable m 1 , the branching factor associated to the second level of the structure by m 2 and so forth.…”

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“…In this paper, attention is placed on presenting an analysis of the cognitive capacities of cetaceans from the perspective of the intelligence and embodiment hypothesis [28]. In doing so, the goal is to reveal further insights that are of relevance to the current debate on cetacean intelligence.…”

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Abstract:In recent years, the interpretation of our observations of animal behaviour, in particular that of cetaceans, has captured a substantial amount of attention in the scientific community. The traditional view that supports a special intellectual status for this mammalian order has fallen under significant scrutiny, in large part due to problems of how to define and test the cognitive performance of animals. This paper presents evidence supporting complex cognition in cetaceans obtained using the recently developed intelligence and embodiment hypothesis. This hypothesis is based on evolutionary neuroscience and postulates the existence of a common information-processing principle associated with nervous systems that evolved naturally and serves as the foundation from which intelligence can emerge. This theoretical framework explaining animal intelligence in neural computational terms is supported using a new mathematical model. Two pathways leading to higher levels of intelligence in animals are identified, each reflecting a trade-off either in energetic requirements or the number of neurons used. A description of the evolutionary pathway that led to increased cognitive capacities in cetacean brains is detailed and evidence supporting complex cognition in cetaceans is presented. This paper also provides an interpretation of the adaptive function of cetacean neuronal traits.

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The notion that the brain has a resting state mode of functioning has received increasing attention in recent years. The idea derives from experimental observations that showed a relatively spatially and temporally uniform high level of neuronal activity when no explicit task was being performed. Surprisingly, the total energy consumption supporting neuronal firing in this conscious awake baseline state is orders of magnitude larger than the energy changes during stimulation. This paper presents a novel and counterintuitive explanation of the high energy consumption of the brain at rest obtained using the recently developed intelligence and embodiment hypothesis. This hypothesis is based on evolutionary neuroscience and postulates the existence of a common information-processing principle associated with nervous systems that evolved naturally and serves as the foundation from which intelligence can emerge and to the efficiency of brain’s computations. The high energy consumption of the brain at rest is shown to be the result of the energetics associated to the most probable state of a statistical physics model aimed at capturing the behavior of a system constrained by power consumption and evolutionary designed to minimize metabolic demands.

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Intelligence and embodiment: A statistical mechanics approach

Cited by 2 publications

References 134 publications

Is Cetacean Intelligence Special? New Perspectives on the Debate

Is Cetacean Intelligence Special? New Perspectives on the Debate

Interpreting the High Energy Consumption of the Brain at Rest

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