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Stan Franklin Computer Science Department & Institute for Intelligent Systems, The University of Memphis

franklin@memphis.edu

LIDA and a Theory of Mind

David FriedlanderCognitive Computing Research Group, Houston, TX

dsfriedlander@comcast.net

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Setup and Results of Animal Experiment1

1Santos,  Laurie R,  Aaron G Nissen, and  Jonathan A Ferrugia. 2006. Rhesus monkeys, macaca mulatta, know what others can and cannot hear. Animal Behaviour 71: 1175–1181.

Experiment 1: Competitor faces ground

Experiment 2: Competitor faces monkey

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1. Understanding

2. Attending

3. Selecting

Processed Sensory Data

Actions

Highly Simplified Cognitive Cycles

1. The experimenter puts a grape in the silent container and a grape in the noisy container.

2. The monkey can take the grape from either container.3. If the experimenters are looking away, the monkey can take the

grape from the silent container without their knowledge. If the experimenters are facing the containers, they will know the monkey took the grape in either case

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Part of Perceptual Memory (Simplified)

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Part of the Workspace

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Plan 1

Plan 2

Alternate Plans for Monkey

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Structure Building Codelet 2

9.0p

Structure Building Codelet 1

9.0p

An Agent can know of an Action by Seeing

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Structure Building Codelet 3

Structure Building Codelet 4

An Agent can know of an Action by Hearing

9.0p

9.0p

9

65.0p

Rivals are likely to Interfere with Each Other

Structure Building Codelet 5

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Plan 1 is likely to Fail in either Experiment

Codelet 3

Codelet 5Codelet 4

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Codelet 1 Codelet 2 Codelet 5

Plan 1 is likely to succeed in Experiment 1 but Fail in Experiment 2

Only in Experiment 2