Then we could think about it subcortically and we might as well do that
This is mapped out on the hippocampus more most particularly by Geoffrey Gray who is influenced by
Soklov and Vin`ega
dov'è who were also students of Luria. Geoffrey gray used cybernetic theory that was developed by Norbert Wiener and
Which is an AI?
which he's the father of artificial intelligence and
some of that was actually
integrated as well in to Piaget Ian thought because Piaget and white wine er Norbert liner and
Luria if I remember correctly all went to the same conference back in the early 1920s
Mid 1920s and heard Norbert Wiener speak so that's how cybernetic Theory got built into some of these underlying
Theories and sort of manifested itself everywhere so gray
Gray uses a model very much like this derived from cybernetic theory and so here's the idea
How does the brain work you have a target in mind
And you act to to manifest the target you act to transform the world into the target
and
Then you compare the consequence of your actions to the target and if they match then that's a good thing and if they don't match
Then that's what it where negative emotion comes from okay?
So how does that work the hippocampus seems to be central to that so it detects mismatch, so?
so in the classic
behavioral theory in this so this would be Gray's theory you have your expectations of the world so that would be your model and
You have your sensory input, which is the real world and then the hippocampus is mapping one on to the other?
One from a top-down stream one from a bottom-up stream and saying match match match match
And as long as everything matches then the hippocampus. This is an oversimplification keeps the subcortical
Emotional systems inhibited because you don't need them
except for maybe my mild positive emotion to keep you moving forward if there's a mismatch
That's anxiety the anxiety system gets disinhibited because it's so on it doesn't get activate it gets disinhibited that freezes you and all the other
motivational systems are primed because god only knows what you're gonna have to do next okay, so
then if
You make a mistake
given that scheme you
Have to modify the world in order to rectify the mistake you have to modify your motor output
So that you put the world back in order and that's basically Gray's model
But Gray's model is insufficient because gray presumes that what you're comparing
Your expectation with is the real world
But you don't have access to the real world what really happens is that your brain compares the model of
The world that you want to have happen so it's desired and not expected with the model of the world
That you think is happening. They're both models
There's no direct contact with the truth, and so what that means and this is what's horrible about
This is that if your model fails
It doesn't only mean that you have to adjust your expectation and change your motor activity
it means you might have to bloody well retool your
perceptions. Well, that's a lot more horrifying than just having to change your motor output. If you betray me
Then I have to see you differently and you know I've we've interacted a long time
I've built up a hell of a model of you
you know it's taken a
Tremendous amount of effort to generate and I may have used that model as a predicate for all sorts of other
Plants which is what you do with an intimate relationship
And so then if you do something that indicates a true mismatch it isn't only that I have to adjust my actions
God only knows what I'm gonna. Have to retool. I may even have to read two of my perceptions of myself
I'm a lot more gullible than I thought I was for example and god only knows what the implications of that are if
You're close to me, and you could do this to me
Is that my flaw and environment am I carrying that into other relationships? It's an absolute catastrophe and so gray actually
underestimated the degree of severity of mismatch because he only said well, it was motor output and and
Andrey Andrey world adjusting that would have to be repaired not perception because like most
Behaviorist see the behaviorist had this idea of stimulus right the stimulus produces the response it's like okay
What stimulus well they never went there they just assumed that the stimulus spoke for itself?
But it doesn't that's the fundamental weak of behavioral
theory
Is that the reason they could get rid of the mind was because they hid it?
Invisibly inside the idea of the stimulus, which is all of a sudden, not just something that was a sense
Like a piece of sense data, but that had motivation built into it well no
You know you can't do that the motivation you can put the motivation into object, but then it's no longer an object
It's something completely different
You