I think I get it now. I was confused on how, under your model, we would continue to generate sequence of thoughts with thematic consistency i.e. [thinking about cake → planning to buy a cake-> buying a cake-> eating a cake] as opposed to ones which aren’t thematically consistent i.e. [think about cake → take a nap → call your friend → scratch an itch].
Two things are apparent to me now:
Valence is conditional on current needs
Latent states of the thought generator are themselves inputs to the next thoughts being generated
I expect I’m still confused about valence, but may ask follow up questions on another thread in a more relevant post. Thanks for the reply!
I think I get it now. I was confused on how, under your model, we would continue to generate sequence of thoughts with thematic consistency i.e. [thinking about cake → planning to buy a cake-> buying a cake-> eating a cake] as opposed to ones which aren’t thematically consistent i.e. [think about cake → take a nap → call your friend → scratch an itch].
Two things are apparent to me now:
Valence is conditional on current needs
Latent states of the thought generator are themselves inputs to the next thoughts being generated
I expect I’m still confused about valence, but may ask follow up questions on another thread in a more relevant post. Thanks for the reply!