# HTM Hackers' Hangout - Oct 4, 2019

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** live, community\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663 "2019-10-03T21:35:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bitking](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/bitking/32/3099_2.png) [@Bitking](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Bitking)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/htm-hackers-hangout-oct-4-2019/6663/6 "2019-10-04T23:17:21Z")

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Collected Bitking forum ramblings (Yes - shameless self promotion!):

> [@Basic system level diagram of the brain](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/basic-system-level-diagram-of-the-brain/5834/3):
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> You ask some huge questions not easily answered. You are asking about the fundamental operations of the most complicated structure known to mankind. The detailed answers could easily fill volumes of textbooks. I will try to hit the highlights here but but I am warning you ahead of time - while this is a very long post I am leaving very much unsaid and unexplained. Let’s start with your first bulleted item. The thalamus is broadly interconnected with the cortex at all points. Some have describ…

Referenced paper:  
How neurons make meaning: brain mechanisms for embodied and abstract-symbolic semantics - Friedemann Pulvermu ̈ ller  
[https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/pdf/S1364-6613(13)00122-8.pdf](https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/pdf/S1364-6613(13)00122-8.pdf)

# BlenderNEURON link:

> **[BlenderNEURON](https://blenderneuron.org/)**

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