have been dealing with how we/people learn from the (social) constructivist and cognitive perspective for a long while. recently reading Dehaene (2021)’s How We Learn.
and chapter 1 captures the seven types of learning; learning is:
- adjusting the parameters of a mental model
- exploiting a combinatorial explosion
- minimising errors
- exploring the space of possibilities
- optimising a reward function
- restricting search space
- projecting a priori hypothesis
“our brain too is molded with assumptions of all kinds. Shortly, we will see that, at birth, babies ‘ brains are already organised and knowledgeable…… Darwinian selection, is in effect, a learning algorithm — an incredibly powerful program that has been running for hundreds of millions of years.” (p.76)
and parallels to the development of AI is drawn and described in chapter 1. more later (: