RE: Jeff Hawkins' theory of cognition?

From: Phil Goetz (philgoetz@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 12:05:31 MDT


--- sl4ghu@mattbamberger.com wrote:

> His book On Intelligence is well worth reading. Here's my 30 second
> summary:
>
> - The cool part of human intelligence happens in the neocortex.
> - The neocortex is all uniform: every module is functionally
> equivalent to
> every other.
> - The purpose of the neocortex is to do pattern matching.
> - Intelligence happens when you stack many pattern matchers together
> in a
> hierarchy.

IIRC, more specifically, the purpose of the neocortex is to do
prediction, and learning means training to improve predictions.

                
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