Leatherbound AI notes p5
Sunday, November 20, 2005
4:52 PM
Importance fades with disuse
Relevance
Also fades with disuse
Low relevance items fall off the tree first as memory runs low
Knowledge Storage and Retrieval
Language & language usage is a reflection of how the brain stores and organizes information
[11/20/2005 I agree with the edit up there, importance fades with disuse. Importance of information will be weighed by three factors: intensity(?), time and repetition. For example, I don't ever touch a lit stove because I know that I can be seriously hurt. This is an immutable fact, but if I were whisked away for 30 years to a planet which had no fire, I could see this information fading away. On my return I might remember something about a stove being hot and dangerous so I'd avoid it but the fear wouldn't be as intense. That was probably a poor example. A better one would be: You have to carry exact change for the bus because they don't make change. If you stop riding busses and enough time passes, you may forget about that completely.
An interesting secondary note - This is the sort of memory that can be revived when the idea is reintroduced. (e.g. you take the bus again for the first time in years and say "OH YEAH! I forgot!) You remember what busses are for, how they work..etc. but forgot a detail.
I don't know if I agree with the line about language being a reflection of how the brain stores and organizes information. I think it is a clue to how the brain stores and organizes information, but not a complete reflection. Also in the car today I thought about the smallest unit of thought (in fact I was up at 3am this morning searching the internet for this topic… no luck) I'm still not solid on how I want to approach the storage of information apart from a barely formed notion that I need to have near infinite relational links to 'cepts']
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