Divisions
There are division breaks between sensory, cognitive and behavioral trilogies.
Each division (sensory, cognitive and behavioral) starts out with processes that have unique properties.
Reverse Order
The behavioral trilogies are in reverse order. However, the behavioral regions inside these trilogies remain in a normal order of gathering region, associating region and conveying region.
Pairing
The "cognitive plan" needs to be paired with "behavioral knowledge". Any intentions from the cognitive plan need to be matched with a purpose or motivation inside the behavioral knowledge region. The behavioral knowledge is where all the information about oneself and one's applications are stored. Sometimes I will say we need to pair our intentions with our applications. This is because once an application is codified, it will immediately be stored as a purpose or motivation to do something. The pairing is done through trial and error.
The pairing is easy if there are not a lot of intentions and not a lot of actuators. Biological life forms grow slowly so that the pairing occurs during early development. Some pairing is carried out between some actuators before other actuators have even been created.
We must keep this in mind when structuring the actuators. Some actuators will be activated first and some actuators need to wait a sufficient time before they can be activated.
This pairing problem is the weakest part of the Paralogical Model. Every robot will be slightly different in how they pair their intentions to their applications. The structuring of the actuators is crucial to the success of a sentient robot.
And even more crucial is when you turn a sentient robot "on", it will just sit there until it learns to move and communicate. If the actuators are structured to help the robot move and communicate with other individuals, then the robot will definitely be more successful later in life.
Areas
Areas inside each region should form "naturally". You don't need to construct areas.
Loops
When information travels through the trilogy it is "looping". The information is constantly changing as new information is being combined with newer information. For example, in the temporal trilogy you gather your thoughts then you associate a couple of those thoughts and then an idea is formed. This idea will be conveyed forward to the next trilogy. However, this new idea will also be conveyed backward as a new "thought". This looping will continue for a limited amount of loops and we will be able to put our thoughts into context and find relationships of all sorts of things. We will imagine new conceptions and reflect on old conceptions.
The temporal trilogy is in the middle of the Paralogical model. The sensory trilogy is a better place to start explaining looping. The sensors measure events in the environment or inside a sentient robot and create a result. A sensation is created by combining two results. During the next loop, instead of measuring new events in the environment the sensory process can use the new sensation as a starting point.
The controllers compare sequential beliefs to form abstractions. A cognition is created by combining two abstractions. During the next loop, instead of comparing the next two sequential beliefs, the cognitive process can compare the new cognition with the next single belief.
The actuators perform sequential positions to form a potential. A behavior is created when this potential is generated or carried out. During the next loop, instead of starting over from scratch and recalculating all the positions, the behavioral process will start its performance from the last behavior (static position). Remember that behaviors in the Paralogical model are static. There is only movement when two behaviors are generated back to back. This potential can grow or shrink depending on the positions of multiple actuators.
Information Flow and not Neurotransmitters
The paralogical equivalent of neurotransmitters is information flow. Because there are no shortcuts for the flow of information to go from one trilogy to the next, some information in the overall information flow will be ignored by some regions but useful to other regions. Depending on how you design your algorithm, you will either use this added information or not.
Neurotransmitters are normally considered to belong in a biological brain between neurons. In a sentient robot a neurotransmitter would be the electrical signals traveling down a wire. I am going to use a broader definition of information flow to allow for information to travel not only down a wire in the robot but also from the behavioral regions to the sensory regions in a sentient robot. When a robot moves, most of this information flow is mechanical and is not collected by any internal controllers. I will also expand the scope of information flow to include the flow of information from the environment to the sensory regions. This will allow the sentient robot to gather it's own information from the environment rather than only relying on it's own internal information flow.
A sentient robot that can interact with its environment will have more information available to make and apply its decisions.
Limbic Trilogy has Actuators
The limbic system of the human brain is made up of various structures including the thalamus, hypothalamus and pituitary gland. The hypothalamus is the structure where the neurohormones are released which activate the pituitary gland to release their hormones. The thalamus is the structure that also tells the hypothalamus to release neurohormones which has, as one of its skills, a skill to regulate sleep. The hypothalamus, thalamus and pituitary gland are actuators.
The limbic trilogy of this model is considered to belong to the sensory regions. So, why are a few specialized behavioral actuators affecting the way the limbic trilogy feels? Sensors are structured to take measurements and get results. Actuators such as the hypothalamus, thalamus and the pituitary gland are structured to release hormones, neurohormones and neurotransmitters when a certain measurement or result has been detected. These hormones, neurohomones and neurotransmitters have obviously helped in the evolution and success of the species which possess these things. My best guess is that these behavioral actuators help to qualify information and support a predetermined behavior before we cognitively think about the information. This is why I use the word intuition as a sub-heading to the limbic trilogy.
The neurohormones do not have to travel far from the limbic system to have an effect in the human brain. In the Paralogical Model, the sensory trilogy and the parietal trilogy will need to operate normally at all times. Only the limbic trilogy will be affected by the way specific actuators are structured and dislocated inside the limbic trilogy. This helps explain pleasure and pain sensations as well as other regulatory functions, abilities and skills such as sleep and energy usage.
The limbic system and therefore the limbic trilogy will evolve as more study and research is done. I am not an expert at all when it comes to the little structures and functions of the brain. In fact, when I was creating the Paralogical Model, I just sort of took all the little left over structures of the brain, grouped them together and put them into this trilogy.
Controllers
Controllers start the cognitive processes of the cognitive division of the Paralogical model. A controller compares sequential beliefs coming from the sensory plan region. The comparison will create an abstraction. One controller may compare the pathway of a neural net. Another controller, or group of controllers, may compare the terminals of a neural net. (This is just like sensors. One sensor will measure pressure, one group of sensors will measure surface area...)
The cognitive function combines abstractions to form a cognition. For example, if you combine a pathway controller and a terminal controller you create a cognition of that information. The more controllers you group together and the different controllers you design the better the cognition will become.
Note that the controller does not need to interact with the information flow. A controller would normally exist along the outer border of a neural net. All it needs to accomplish is comparing information flow.
A mechanical controller would compare forces on mechanical actuators; does it have more or less torque or tension? A chemical controller would compare something like electron or proton gradients across a membrane; are bonds breaking or forming? The electrical controller compares the electron flow on a circuit; is the voltage rising or falling?
In the Paralogical model, electrical, mechanical and chemical information is quickly turned into electrical information and stays that way until the actuators generate a behavior. Depending on how you design and structure the actuators will determine the nature of the information flow from there.
Definition of Intelligence
Intelligence is the set of processes, functions, abilities and skills one uses in the pursuit of applying ones decisions.
Definition of Paralogical
para- prefix
Definition of para-[1]
1 : beside : alongside of : beyond : aside from
logical adjective
Definition of logical[2]
1 a (1) : of, relating to, involving, or being in accordance with logic
// a logical conclusion
(2) : skilled in logic
b : formally true or valid : ANALYTIC, DEDUCTIVE
// a logical statement
2 : capable of reasoning or of using reason in an orderly cogent fashion
// a logical thinker
paralogical adjective
Definition of paralogical[3]
1 : alongside of or beyond that of logic
2 : being capable of taking emotions into consideration while reasoning in an orderly cogent fashion
[1] Per Merriam-Webster dictionary.
[2] Per Merriam-Webster dictionary.
[3] Combining Merriam-Webster dictionary definitions with my emphasis on using emotions as a companion to logic.