The combinatorial structure of language and tech for outsourcing storage makes that number enormous. Some people have filled entire books about the world. Most of the instantiated variables might have 5-20 possible states, e.g. variables for probability: https://github.com/zonination/perceptions …
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It is clear that we can create external world models, that we can hold quite complex thoughts in our mind to interpret our perception, and that a lot of our perception is affected by marginal variables. But I am curious how many variables an average human brain represents.
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Isn't everything in my world a latent variable? Then an equivalent question is: How many bits does my world occupy? Now I want to know.
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Much of your world is constituted by the computational relationships between the variables, ie your model of the wold’s invariances. The variable part is the state, ie the incompressible rest.
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Good question. As few variables as possible (If you ask Jeff Hawkins, maybe in the form of cortical columns?) with as much variability representable as necessary (to keep resource expenditure low)?
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Of course you want your model to be as constrained as possible. Ideally, every model state corresponds to a possible world state, and vice versa. But we also have resource and learnability limits.
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90% of humans are utterly predictable 90% of the time. 90% of investors would be willing to invest a shit load of money to realize that this is true. Nobody really needs to bother whether we ever get 100% coverage and how large the latent space should be. :)
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why should it have any particular state? might it be just a probability distribution?
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