Abstract
The Information Dynamics of Thinking (IDyOT) is a cognitive architecture based around the principle that the human mind seeks to represent data in the most information-efficient way possible. By blending conceptual spaces theory and information theory, and making a minimal set of assumptions, IDyOT specifies three main processes -- segmentation, categorization, and abstraction -- that hierarchically generate spectral representations of perceptual data in an information-efficient manner.
This thesis is primarily an explication of the propositions and claims introduced in IDyOT by applying the mathematical formalisms of Hilbert spaces and the Fourier transform as implementations of the aforementioned theoretical processes. After deriving the necessary mathematics in order to implement the architecture, an implemented system is empirically tested on a corpus of human speech, where we expected to see the emergence of distinct semantic categories corresponding to human speech sound syllables.
This thesis is primarily an explication of the propositions and claims introduced in IDyOT by applying the mathematical formalisms of Hilbert spaces and the Fourier transform as implementations of the aforementioned theoretical processes. After deriving the necessary mathematics in order to implement the architecture, an implemented system is empirically tested on a corpus of human speech, where we expected to see the emergence of distinct semantic categories corresponding to human speech sound syllables.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 30 Nov 2019 |
Event | BNAIC 2019 - Brussels, Belgium Duration: 7 Nov 2019 → 8 Nov 2019 |
Conference
Conference | BNAIC 2019 |
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Country/Territory | Belgium |
City | Brussels |
Period | 7/11/19 → 8/11/19 |