Giving Up Control: Neurons As Reinforcement Learning Agents

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence has historically relied on planning, heuristics, and handcrafted approaches designed by experts. All the while claiming to pursue the creation of Intelligence. This approach fails to acknowledge that intelligence emerges from the dynamics within a complex system. Neurons in the brain are governed by local rules, where no single neuron, or group of neurons, coordinates or controls the others. This local structure gives rise to the appropriate dynamics in which intelligence can emerge. Populations of neurons must compete with their neighbors for resources, inhibition, and activity representation. At the same time, they must cooperate, so the population and organism can perform high-level functions. To this end, we introduce modeling neurons as reinforcement learning agents. Where each neuron may be viewed as an independent actor, trying to maximize its own self-interest. By framing learning in this way, we open the door to an entirely new approach to building inte

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