How to utilize Hebbian learning?

Question

I want to upgrade my evolution simulator to use Hebb learning, like this one. I basically want small creatures to be able to learn how to find food. I achieved that with the bas

Answer 1

I'm not very well acquainted with this type of neural network, but it looks like you're expecting it to work like a supervised update method while it is unsupervised. This means you can't teach it what is right, it will only learn what is different, by association. That is, it will eventually associate actions with particular clusters of inputs. In your situation where you want it to improve its decisionmaking by feedback, I don't think Hebbian updates only will suffice. You could combine it with some sort of backpropagation though.