The organization of behavior
by D. O. Hebb · first published 1949
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…metaphysics, and/or epistemology with an eye towards working on AGI, then yes. Otherwise, "it depends". Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction[1] Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction[2] The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Principle[3] Sensation and Perception[4] Cognitive Psychology[5] Memory[6] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33425626 [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31627001-metaphysics…
on “Ask HN: What are you currently reading? Would you recommend it?” ↗…Sensation and Perception one. I also knocked out a pretty good chunk of the one titled just Memory. The rest got bumped down the stack a bit. I kinda getting back to the place now where I want to revisit The Organization of Behavior. That's the seminal work by Hebb that introduced Hebbian Learning and I'm on this big quest now to revisit a lot of old school approaches to learning & neural networks (in something at least approximating…
on “Laptops with Stickers” ↗…how learning works. I can't shake the idea that there's a crucial connection between cognitive dissonance and "belief revision"[3]. I'm also going back to first sources and reading Donald O. Hebb's The Organization of Behavior which contains his ideas on learning that have come to be called Hebbian Learning[4]. Anyway, that's more or less what I'm working on at the moment. The only other thing of note is working on learning/re-learning…
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (November 2022)” ↗…Chomsky's work on language and innateness https://crl.ucsd.edu/~elman/Papers/book/index.shtml This line of work even has heavyweight ancestors in Donald Hebb's work on the neural basis of learning in "The Organization of Behavior" (1949) and the noted austrian economist(?)/classical liberal and anti-communist Frederick Hayek covered similar lines in his book "The Sensory Order" (1952) I think this tradition is carried on in the…
on “The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind” ↗…them. Markets don't guarantee an optimal equilibrium. 50% of R&D spending is by the government. He also did early work on neural networks, published The Sensory Order in 1952, 3 years after Hebb's The Organization of Behavior
on “Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist” ↗…changes in the synapse: "It might be supposed that the mnemonic trace is a lasting pattern of reverberatory activity without fixed locus like a cloud formation or eddies in a millpond" From Hebb's 1948 "Organization of Behavior"
on “Neurons that fire together, wire together, but how?” ↗