Warning: Annealing sounds impressive if you’re new to machine learning but AFAIK it’s pretty weak as machine-learning methods go, and the real algorithms at work in human creativity are going to involve algorithms more powerful than that—albeit something on the level of ‘cognitive temperature’ might still be playing a partial role somewhere.
No idea—it’s just the analogy I use for myself :) I think of it like a continuation of the learning process, but I don’t know if the brain actually represents solutions as a favored arrangement of cells, and I don’t know if there’s some changing noise source that would lead to something like annealing.
Unconscious annealing of connections between concepts.
Warning: Annealing sounds impressive if you’re new to machine learning but AFAIK it’s pretty weak as machine-learning methods go, and the real algorithms at work in human creativity are going to involve algorithms more powerful than that—albeit something on the level of ‘cognitive temperature’ might still be playing a partial role somewhere.
That definitely seems to be what’s going on! Any clue what the neural structures are that take the dominant role in this process?
No idea—it’s just the analogy I use for myself :) I think of it like a continuation of the learning process, but I don’t know if the brain actually represents solutions as a favored arrangement of cells, and I don’t know if there’s some changing noise source that would lead to something like annealing.