One may usually think that why we are responding slowly when there is some decision conflict. One may think that it is a mechanism for getting more evidence since we have a conflicting decision and this suggestion is completely logical. But, what could be the possible mechanism behind that? Anything that is happening in our […]
Ethics: Dark and White- Page 3
Journey after middle ages After the Renaissance, the knowledge of the Greek texts became readily available for the Europe. For Marsilio Ficino Plato was the first teacher of wisdom. But, there could be a role for the harmoney existed between platonian thoughts and Christianity at that time, which we had already discussed. There the translation […]
Ethics: Dark and White- Page 2
Morality in ancient Greece Greece is well marked in history due to its city-state structure which is an ancestral form of democracy. That is unlike a kingdom, there were people in the process of determining the administrative system. Of course, it was not very similar to modern society in the sense that, women and slaves […]
Ethics: Dark and White- Page 1
Ethics is said to be one of the most accessible phylosophies. How should we live? What should be our aim? Is it happiness or knowledge or something else? If one chooses to be happy, does that mean happiness of a person alone or that of a society in which he lives? If one chooses knowledge, […]
How Decisions Are Affected By Beliefs/Motivations
We may know from our daily experiences that our decisions may be affected by beliefs or motivations. But, the question that we are facing here is: “do we have conclusive evidence to put forward this idea?”. Almost all decision-making models in the past neglected the effect of the most desirable outcome in the decision-making […]
DNQ: Applying RL in DNNs
When we are considering the learning model, reinforcement learning is an important theme to be considered. The maze experiment with rodent had already shown us the existence of such a system in animals. But, the latest researches, such as DQNs, had pushed it further in AI also. To build a smart in silico model, we […]
Decision Making; Reward Matters
In one of the previous post(https://leakyintegral.blogspot.com/2021/03/decision-making-evidence-everybody.html), we had discussed the drift-diffusion model the experimental evidence found for validating it. We can also discuss some of the insights that I got from the paper “The time course of perceptual choice: The leaky, competing accumulator model,” Usher et al(https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.108.3.550). This paper and the result presented in it seems to […]
Decision Making; Evidence Matters
Everybody makes a decision when subjected to certain issues in everyday life. Each day we are making a whole lot of decisions with the expectation of getting a better outcome. You may have heard about decision making in its broad sense, about how important it and all. But, let’s dig deeper to get something new. […]
Artificial Neural Networks and Actual Brain; Some Speculations?
Did you ever think about why our brain is different from a simple computer? Or how our ability differs from that of a computer? Well if you had seen science fiction such as Matrix, these kinds of thoughts won’t allow you to sleep. But, a simple answer to this is that computers are good at […]
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കാട്ടിലേക്കുള്ള വഴികൾ ദുസ്സഹമായിരുന്നു. വഴികളിൽ പലതും വേരുകൾ കയ്യേറിയിരുന്നു. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ തന്നെ വഴി എന്നുപറയാൻ അവിടെ ഒന്നും തന്നെ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നില്ല. കാടിനു വഴിയുമില്ല അത് ആരും പിന്തുടരാറുമില്ല. എല്ലാം അതിന്റെ നൈതികവസ്ഥയിൽ വിഹരിക്കുന്നിടത്തു അയാൾക്ക് സ്വന്തം സാന്നിധ്യം ഒരു അലോസരമായി തോന്നിയപോലെ മുഖത്തു ഒരു തീക്ഷ്ണത പടർന്നു. തനിക്കു മുന്നിലായി പടർന്നുകിടക്കുന്ന വേരുകളിലേക്കു സൂക്ഷിച്ചു നോക്കി. ഒരു പടവുകളെന്നോളം അവ കൂടിപ്പിണഞ്ഞു കിടക്കുന്നു. ഒരു പക്ഷെ അത് അതിന്റെ ഉള്ളിലേക്ക്, നിഗൂഢമായ എന്തിലേക്കോ ഉള്ള വഴിയാകാം. കാടിന്റെ […]
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