Connectomic AI

     I feel bad that I didn't write down the scientist that said "AGI must start with the stomach" but he is so right. 99% of AI (ANN/GOFAI/DL/Neurosymbolic/ et al) starts with sensory input and 99.99% attaches the AI to motor activity if it has something to do with robotics, where that motor activity is a direct result of everything sensory. In current AI, motor activity is always secondary to sensory input and most often, AI doesn't even put motor activity as a requisite.  Let me flip the script and instead of starting with sensory input, let me start with motor activity. The reason AGI starts with the stomach is because when we are hungry, we need to move. As an infant, we begin sucking on anything that represents a nipple. As we get older, we grab anything that we know we can eat and put it in our mouths. Even older, we go to the kitchen and make us something to eat. The drive to squash the hunger pain is the reason we learn. To eat in any instance, requires us t

One of the surprising revelations that I discovered while preforming emulations of animal connectomes is the huge amount of recurrence. The brain literally folds back on itself over and over again.  To illustrate this idea, let's look at C elegans again. Keep in mind that we are working with 302 neurons. Neurons connect to a set of other neurons. This connected set has a number of axons that link back to the originating neuron. If we look at the Interneuron AVAL, AVAL connects to 77 other neurons. These 77 neurons connect to another set of neurons, so on and so on. Each neuron can have multiple connections to other neurons. For example, AVAL has 11 synaptic connections to the neuron DA6. From the first set of neurons that AVAL connects too, there are 83 total synaptic and gap junction connections from those 77 neurons back to AVAL. If we take those 77 neurons and follow what neurons they connect too, we find from that second set (Layer 2), there are 573 neuronal connections back to

  From the movie Young Frankenstein                 "Abbey Normal" is of course the perfect scenario of what we do not want to do. To illustrate further, I would start the C elegans emulation and let the robot wander around the house, sometimes for an hour or so. Just let it go. I liken it much like a Cat in that it would explore and do its own thing. One day my wife started calling it and the robot stated to come towards her. To her, calling it made it come to her but to me, I knew what was really happening in that she was activating the sound sensor which in turn was stimulating the food sensory neurons so the robot thought she was food. Not sure this would be the desired effects we would want to occur. Other animal connectomes will most likely give us a number of undesired effects. The obvious consequence to connectomic emulation in the movies around Frankenstein is that if we use a criminal brain, we end up with a criminal. To understand how connectomics work and to find