A Mathematical Model of Motivated Emotional Mind - Cognitive Embodied System
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arXiv:2609.20437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article presents a mathematical model of the Motivated Emotional Mind cognitive architecture developed for embodied intelligent systems. Such a system learns to maintain its homeostasis through a generalized form of reinforcement learning based on its internal motivations, termed motivated learning (ML). The principal contribution of this article is a rigorous formalization of the re-entrant loop integrating feedforward processing, lateral interactions, and feedback pathways, together with the representational selection mechanisms that gov
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- arXiv:2609.20437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article presents a mathematical model of the Motivated Emotional Mind cognitive architecture developed for embodied intelligent systems.
- Such a system learns to maintain its homeostasis through a generalized form of reinforcement learning based on its internal motivations, termed motivated learning (ML).
- The principal contribution of this article is a rigorous formalization of the re-entrant loop integrating feedforward processing, lateral interactions, and feedback pathways, together with the representational selection mechanisms that gov
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