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From: ins_atge@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Thomas G Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Q. re: suspension of common-sense reasoning during dreams
Summary: Connectionist Allegory
Keywords: Boltzman Machine Dreaming
Message-ID: <1238@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 89 04:44:35 GMT
References: <1368@hub.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: ins_atge@jhunix.UUCP (Thomas G Edwards)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <1368@hub.ucsb.edu> silber@sbphy.ucsb.edu writes:
>In dreaming, common-sense reasoning is usually suspended, also the
  ...
>I am interested in any NET-speculation re: this phenomenon and its
>interpretation from the standpoint of a-i.

In _Parallel_Distributed_Processing_ Volume 1, the chapter on Boltzman
Machine learning algorithm (I think one author was T. Sejnowsky)
briefly presents an allegory between the "unclamped" learning period
of a Boltzman machine and dreaming.  As I am far, far away from my
copy of PDP, and it is habitually out of my school's library, could
someone else fill in the details.

-Thomas Edwards