%0 Journal Article
%T An Electronic Circuit Model of the Interpostsynaptic Functional LINK Designed to Study the Formation of Internal Sensations in the Nervous System
%A Kunjumon I. Vadakkan
%J Advances in Artificial Neural Systems
%D 2014
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2014/318390
%X The nervous system makes changes in response to the continuous arrival of associative learning stimuli from the environment and executes behavioral motor activities after making predictions based on past experience. The system exhibits dynamic plasticity changes that involve the formation of the first-person internal sensations of perception, memory, and consciousness to which only the owner of the nervous system has access. These properties of natural intelligence need to be verified for their mechanism of formation using engineered systems so that a third person can access them. In the presence of a synaptic junctional delay of up to two milliseconds, we anticipate that the systems property of formation of internal sensations is likely independent of the mode of conduction along the neuronal processes. This allows testing for the formation of internal sensations using electronic circuits. The present work describes the neurobiological context for the formation of the basic units of inner sensations that occur through the reactivation of interpostsynaptic functional LINKs and its connection to motor activity. These mechanisms are translated to an analogue circuit unit for the development of robotic systems. 1. Introduction Realistic models of the nervous system are based on known features of neurons and synapses and have been integrated into microcircuits ([1, 2] reviews [3, 4]). What additional features are needed in the transfer of natural intelligence to artificial intelligence? Nervous system combines newly arriving sensory information with that of the internal sensations of retrieved memories of the past experience to make predictions. These inner sensations guide behavioral motor actions that enable survival of the animal in the physical world. The formation of inner sensations towards which only the owner of the nervous system has access is the basis of natural intelligence. Since it is not possible to study the first-person-accessible inner sensations in biological systems, it is required to replicate the mechanism in engineered systems possibly by using silicon-based electronics. Even though some of the earlier studies were focused on replicating the nervous system¡¯s first-person properties [5], a direct approach to test theoretically feasible mechanisms has not been carried out. In order to understand the functional emergence of the mind and its operations, it is necessary to make reasonable assumptions to fill the gaps in the experimental evidence [6] and test for novel methods to approach the first-person inner sensations. The surrogate
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