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Grid cells and their potential application in AI — mentioned by bonsai_spool

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:17:19 GMT

> Here is a summary paper I wrote discussing how the entorhinal cortex, grid cells, and coordinate transformation may be the key: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12068 All animals are able to transform coordinates in real time to navigate their world and humans have the most coordinate representations of any known living animal. I believe human level intelligence is knowing when and how to transform these coordinate systems to extract useful information. Yes, you and the Mosers who won the Nobel Prize all believe that grid cells are the key to animals understanding their position in the world.…

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Grid cells and their potential application in AI — mentioned by toisanji

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:15:10 GMT

From reading that, I'm not quite sure if they have anything figured out. I actually agree, but her notes are mostly fluff with no real info in there and I do wonder if they have anything figured out besides "collect spatial data" like imagenet. There are actually a lot of people trying to figure out spatial intelligence, but those groups are usually in neuroscience or computational neuroscience. Here is a summary paper I wrote discussing how the entorhinal cortex, grid cells, and coordinate transformation may be the key: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12068 All animals are able to transform…

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Grid cells and their potential application in AI — mentioned by toisanji

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:25:58 GMT

I've written about the cognitive aspect the author talks about before: https://blog.jtoy.net/examining-concepts-through-different-f... https://blog.jtoy.net/on-the-wondrous-human-simulation-engin... https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12068 The human brain has at least over 12 different coordinate systems. I like to reference this image: https://cln.sh/gpqhwrw2Hg92MQz62TY6 Humans have the ability to inspect anything from any point of view that we want, like a real time video game simulation system in our minds. I suspect that artificial neural networks are missing this core ability to encode and…

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