Find out more about the Xzistor Concept brain model in these interviews with neuroscientist Dr. Denise Cook (Twitter: @personalitygeni) – who has independently arrived at the conclusion that cognition in the brain is underpinned by emotions.
Video 1: Xzistor Mathematical Model of Mind (Introduction, history and some key aspects)
Join me and Rocco Van Schalkwyk as we explore the history and some key aspects around his Mathematical Model of Mind (including the time he cold-called Marvin Minsky!). Everything you needed to know about urgency to restore, satiation & deprivation, threading, robot emotions and so much more! Find out why Rocco thinks his robot provides the FIRST and ONLY biologically-informed model of human emotions, learning and intelligence and why it could offer a new direction for contemporary AI and AGI.
Video 2: The Uneasy Road to AGI
Join me again in conversation with Rocco Van Schalkwyk as we discuss the origin and fuzzy meaning of the terms “artificial intelligence” (AI) and “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), as well as popular examples of artificial intelligences such as ChatGPT. Are we currently on the path to AGI or is Big Tech and its massive amounts of funding leading us astray? If Big Tech’s solutions to AGI are misguided and potentially unsafe, is Rocco’s Xzistor Mathematical Model of the Mind the answer, as he claims? We leave it up to you to decide!
Video 3: Pain explained by Xzistor Concept brain model.
What role does pain play in fear and anxiety? Can a person survive without feeling pain, fear or anxiety? Find out in this episode of Conversations on the Mind where we discuss the curious case of a woman who doesn’t feel pain.
Video 4: Can the Xzistor Model of Mind explain qualia?
What is it like to be a snake? We can’t ever experience the world through the mind of another animal or even another person, which has led philosophers to conjure up a concept called “qualia” to explain the personal, subjective point of view through which each of us experiences the world. But are qualia really any different from emotions? Using the Xzistor Model of Mind we show how a caffeine-obsessed robot, through its daily experiences searching for and satisfying its caffeine craving, forms an emotional attachment to a red mug, which helps it remember and navigate to this mug every time it senses a decrease in its caffeine levels. While simple, this “caffeine-obsessed” robot, demonstrates how a simple homeostatic or negative feedback control loop, with experience and the ability to create and store associative memories through operant learning, helps the robot build a very personal and eclectic worldview (or “qualia”) centered around caffeine.