Re: Jeff Hawkins Q&A


Traveler wrote:
> Jeff Hawkins Q&A:
>
> http://www.techreview.com/articles/05/10/wo/wo_101305hawkins.asp
>
> Some quotes:
>
> JH: Many neuroscientists don't believe that the neocortex works
> on a common algorithm. They don't know what it works on, but
> they have a problem believing that vision is the same thing
> as hearing.
>
> I agree. I've been saying this for twenty years. It's all temporal
> signal processing, regardless of the sensory origin of the signals or
> their information content. Temporality is the magic universal glue
> that makes it all work together so well.


"Hierarchical Temporal Memory" (HTM) whatever that means. Doesn't seem
to be detailed [but sounds like feedback to me].

This makes some sense ... [sounds like evolution]

"... Nothing in nature just springs into being. The neocortex evolved
from structures that existed before. A reptile has a sophisticated
brain. The neocortex added value to that brain ..."



>
> JH: Yes. I think I understand what consciousness is now. There
> are two elements to consciousness.
>
> Here I think Hawkins is full of hot air. In fact, I know so.


Well the following has to be total hoo-eee, as judged by recent threads
on c.a.p .... philosophy has made a living out of refuting it ...

"... I perceive the world in a certain way because that's the way the
world really is ...".

Now, how could that possibly be?

And saying that dolphins have a "very limited motor cortex" sounds a
little weird, too. Might be interesting to check out some dolphin
nueroanatomy.

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