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     2  

     3    - =CORTEX=, a system for creating simulated creatures with rich

     4      senses.

     5 -  - =EMPATH=, a program for recognizing actions by imagining sensory

     6 -    experience. 

     7 +  - =EMPATH=, a program for recognizing actions by aligning them with

     8 +    personal sensory experiences.

     9  

    10  # An anatomical joke:

    11  # - Training

    12 

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    14     provided by an experience vector and reliably infering the rest of

    15     the senses.

    16  

    17 -** Empathy is the process of tracing though \Phi-space 

    18 +** ``Empathy'' requires retracing steps though \Phi-space 

    19  

    20     Here is the core of a basic empathy algorithm, starting with an

    21     experience vector:

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    23          hard control problems without worrying about physics or

    24          senses.

    25  

    26 -* Empathy in a simulated worm

    27 +* =EMPATH=: the simulated worm experiment

    28 +# Empathy in a simulated worm

    29  

    30    Here I develop a computational model of empathy, using =CORTEX= as a

    31    base. Empathy in this context is the ability to observe another

    32 

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    34      doing everything in software is far cheaper than building custom

    35      real-time hardware. All you need is a laptop and some patience.

    36  

    37 -** Because of Time, simulation is perferable to reality

    38 +** Simulated time enables rapid prototyping and complex scenes 

    39  

    40     I envision =CORTEX= being used to support rapid prototyping and

    41     iteration of ideas. Even if I could put together a well constructed
author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:48:19 -0400
parents	58fa1ffd481e
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