Thinking - Robert Hamill

Only 13% of Brain is Used (cont)

allow this.
   To progress from visual matching to concept alignment, we need to discuss concepts and the concept table a little further. The concept table is a part of a model of how the brain works. It is not meant to literally exist. I don't mean that there is a table like there is in computer storage. What I mean is that it is useful to consider all concepts together, because they are handled in a similar fashion.
   What are the constituents of the concept table? Certainly images and words are representing concrete objects. Also words representing abstract ideas like love, power, and god. In fact all words that have meanings that are known to you are in your concept table. So are the tricks of the trade, the rules of thumb that you use to function in normal life.
   The relationships between you and your family and friends. If some event might happen, how it affects your self, your family, your sense of morality, etc. are all components to how you decide to react to the possibility of the event. These images of self, relationships, and morality are all concepts that we hold.

   Concept alignment is my term for the analogue to pattern matching. Concepts are stored in our brains the same way images are, in neural nets. Therefore a reasonable supposition is that the methods of pattern handling can be extended to handling concepts.
   Are two ideas alike? Which of the many dimensions of the idea is to be considered? An intuitive artist may be satisfied with 2 dimensions in common, while a rigorous logician may require all but one of the dimensions to be the same.
   I believe that a similar mechanism to that sketched above for the visual system would be used for the more abstract concept case. And it would extend to aligning multiple concepts together.
   Another interesting point about concepts in neural nets is that concepts overlap each other's storage. The storage of your friend's face is held in a complex of the neural net. Parts of that same neural net segment may be used to store your feeling of self-worth. Other parts of your friend's face (concept) may overlap your concept of aesthetic beauty.
   Let me close by indulging in some numerical musings.