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H2F is a capabilities-based, task and environment focused, Human Performance Optimization (HPO) program. HQDA EXORD 149-19 directs the Total Army to implement the H2F System. For the Active Component (AC), H2F provides Soldiers direct access to specialized medical and mental health care providers, athletic trainers, and strength coaches at the brigade level. The ARNG model will not mirror the AC model, while still accomplishing the desired end state of improving physical fitness, injury avoidance and recovery, nutritional health, and mental/spiritual resilience.

The ARNG achieves H2F Systems goals of improving Soldier readiness and lethality, optimizing physical/non-physical performance, reducing injury rates, improving rehabilitation after injury, and increasing overall effectiveness through a Directorate enabled and State/Territory led approach which accounts for ARNG unique requirements, opportunities, constraints. The ARNG will accomplish this through a blend of material solutions, subject matter expertise, federal and state resources, and health care professionals.

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QuEST (2024-06-07) Benjamin Kuipers - Drinking From the Firehose of Experience

Air Force Research Laboratory

June 7, 2024 | 01:16:50

Consciousness is an important but mysterious aspect of human intelligence. As AI researchers work toward building computational intelligent systems, what role should consciousness play in such systems?
Most of this talk describes steps toward a cognitive architecture to explain the benefits of consciousness to an intelligent agent, specifically in helping it cope with the overwhelming information content of its sensorimotor interaction with the physical world. First, a relatively small number of dynamic trackers provide continuous access to changing entities within the sensory field, simultaneously providing concise descriptions for symbolic reasoning and access to rich sensory input about those entities in the world. Second, a coherent sequential narrative is constructed, about 300-500 milliseconds after the fact, attempting to explain experienced events in terms of interactions among the tracked entities. The trackers and the narrative together provide a concise summary of the overwhelming complexity of sensorimotor interaction, with which the agent can reason and plan.
This cognitive architecture proposal addresses what is sometimes called the “Easy Problem” of consciousness. The “Hard Problem” is: “Why does consciousness feel like anything at all?” I offer some observations on perceptual vividness, and a few other philosophical matters related to consciousness.
Many of these ideas are introduced in “Drinking From the Firehose of Experience”

Key Moments and Questions in the video include:

What is the mind?
Consciousness is a Phenomenon in the World
The problems of Consciousness
AI and Robotics Provide Insights
What is a Robot?
Drinking from the Firehose of Experience
Trackers in the Sensor Stream
A simple Object Tracker
Fictional Tracker Illustration
A tracker is an index into the firehose of experience
Tackers: their importance is not a new idea
Making Sense of Experience
The Constructivist Agent
Intentionality
The problems of Consciousness
The Easy Problem
The Function of Consciousness
The Hard problem
Sneaking up on the Hard Problem
Vivid Qualia have Lots of Bits
Does information transfer feel like anything at all?
Can a Machine be Conscious
Pushing the Boundaries
Features of Consciousness
Conclusions
Open discussion

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