Jeff Hawkins on Scale and Orientation in Cortical Columns - 30 November, 2020

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Welcome to what I have been calling the dumb boss/smart advisor model.
It’s nice to see someone else that sees how that model could work.

Introducing new project: image2sdr

I see this as a huge unsolved problem for HTM systems. HTM is great at saying “I saw this thing” before. It can even say “I saw this sequence” before. I really don’t see how HTM will be able to match up some cue, like a perceived printed or spoken word to a paired sound or image or stream of tokens that make an image. The current excitement in Numenta regarding the coding in tuples of grid nodes (object) (displacement) (object) does not really solve this problem yet. That gets us to a repre…

Let's Watch Murray Sherman talk about the Thalamus

@rhyolight One aspect that Dr Sherman brought up was the soup of neurochemical receptors. It could be thought of as making the system hopelessly complicated. In my mind I have simplified it as follows, start with these considerations: The thalamus is the gating and distribution network. You can think of it as attention and automatic gain control if that works for you. It is not likely that these complicated signaling pathways are somehow directly wired into the learned engrams. The influence…

Intelligence - what is it?

You are following the trail that led me to the dumb boss/smart advisor model. The lizard part of the brain (dumb boss) does The intensional part, the cortex (smart advisor) does the memory part. I have not seen anything that would really support any function other than some forms of memory in the cortex. The sub-cortical structures prime and drive the cortex to various states.

Discussion about Emotions

This stuff is well preserved from reptiles and amphibians. I would think that until you know how the stuff works I assume that it is all needed until you learn otherwise. This is the “dumb boss” part of my “dumb boss / smart adviser” model. The “dumb boss” is still pretty smart. When you can program a robot to do everything a crocodile does using neural networks you can make the call on what parts are not needed.