LEARNING as a description process
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1873 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
According to L. LÖFGREN: “We think of the basic function of our brains as a learning or description process, which produces short and communicable descriptions of the enormous, and in itself unmanageably complex, data-flow that is our direct experience of an outer world (surrounding)” (1977, p.199).
Such brain-internalized descriptions tend to become evermore stable and can thus be used as a simplification device for the synthetic interpretation of considerable chunks of outer world data.
In LÖFGREN's words: “Involved is the idea that the more regularities have been found, the more can be utilized (be referred to) in the description to make it shorter (than a lengthy listing of uncorrelated facts). Furthermore, the predictive power of the description will increase with the number of regularities found… Then more reliable predictions can be made on the basis of the learned description, and more safe inferences can be made of how to behave in the surrounding” (Ibid).
These views confirm that learning is a brain process of algorithms creation.