Brain Building - Q1. Define Intelligence

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I have been reading about neurology and AI related fields since the early 80’s.

Introduce yourself!

Hi all. I am an embedded systems designer, both hardware and software. Many years ago I wanted to learn about the soul and did much self-studies on neurology and the brain. At some point I noticed that I had accounted for everything that I could think of that makes us human - memory, emotion, intentionality & volition, all of the senses. It was a letdown that nothing was leftover to be a soul. When I started to study electronics in the 1970’s (and got an associate’s degree) I was drawn to the…

At this point I feel that I know the basic overall structure and function of the brain. There are many loose ends that still mystify me but I am close to seeing the end-to-end details of coding a trial AI.
A key point for me is working out how to do the sparse bidirectional many-to-many connections (dendrite to axon) matrix with a plausible local inhibition in an efficient method that will fit in modern hardware.

I have collected many of conclusions of ~35 years of informal study in this thread. I would estimate that this thread captures roughly 50% of the ideas that I will try to roll into my model:

Basic system level diagram of the brain

HTM seeks to model and understand what is going on in your head. I tossed this drawing together from memory so it is sure to be missing some connections. I skipped the thalamic connections all together as this was already a very complicated drawing. Also not shown are the connections between the limbic system and the stream passing through the brain stem and the cerebellum. These are important but not necessary to illustrate the basic cortical/limbic data flows. The blue maps are cortex compose…