Episodes of experience and generative intelligence.

Journal: Trends in cognitive sciences
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Abstract

How do humans, including toddlers, take knowledge from past experiences and apply this knowledge in new ways? Current approaches to human and artificial intelligence (AI) fail to offer satisfactory explanations. We suggest the explanation will be found in the coherence statistics of the individual time-extended episodes of human experience and the cognitive processes those statistics engage.

Authors

  • Linda B Smith
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. Electronic address: smith4@indiana.edu.
  • Hadar Karmazyn-Raz
    Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.