{"pk":27616,"title":"Is Neurocomputational Self-Organization a Core Mechanism of AGI Systems?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a term that describes a variant of a Strong AI revival in the mind sciences.Irrespective of its definition limits, and leaving aside the non-scientific metaphysical or philosophical aspirations, AGI studiesthe feasibility and implementation aspects of artificial systems that would have the capacity of domain non-specific (domain-general) human-level intelligence.The importance of self-organization in natural neural systems as well as in neuromimetic computational systems, especiallythe class of Self-Organizing Map (SOM) neural networks, has been extensively demonstrated and supported in the literature.Neurocomputational self-organization exhibits unique characteristics, including non-deterministic epigenetic (post-genetic) be-havior, which enable direct functional and structural comparisons with the neocortex more than most existing relevant compu-tational mechanisms. If the problem of artificial general intelligence is approached from a biologically relevant computationalstandpoint then SOM mechanisms are currently a very strong candidate as a core component of a computational AGI system.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters: Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p3254v1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Spyridon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Revithis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of New South Wales","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27616/galley/17252/download/"}]}