The paper discusses, with knowledge from both computer science and neuroscience, how it is possible to "alleviate catastrophic forgetting" (p. 6). I was curious, on the other hand, whether it is possible that certain set of information or learning processes block other forms of learning or new information to be incorporated in the information set. Such phenomena certainly seem prevalent in real life; for instance, people are unwilling to change their habits or to accept some new methodology (that could be more efficient) due to such being "costly." I am wondering, however, if there is some insight from neuroscience and/or computer science that tells us some forms of newer learning are inherently more difficult than others.
Firstly, thank you for your talk in advance!
The paper discusses, with knowledge from both computer science and neuroscience, how it is possible to "alleviate catastrophic forgetting" (p. 6). I was curious, on the other hand, whether it is possible that certain set of information or learning processes block other forms of learning or new information to be incorporated in the information set. Such phenomena certainly seem prevalent in real life; for instance, people are unwilling to change their habits or to accept some new methodology (that could be more efficient) due to such being "costly." I am wondering, however, if there is some insight from neuroscience and/or computer science that tells us some forms of newer learning are inherently more difficult than others.
Thank you!