Re: The human brain works the Lisp way!

2011-01-06 Thread Tim Daly
Rich has suggested the book "Spikes" ISBN 0-262-68108-0 which is about exploring the neural code. This was mentioned in his Whitehead video. On 1/6/2011 7:40 PM, Michael Aldred wrote: G'day Arie, You have to be very careful about listening to things Ray Kurzweil says when he's talking about th

Re: The human brain works the Lisp way!

2011-01-06 Thread Lee Spector
I just watched about 10 minutes leading up to the comment Arie flagged and it seems to me that Kurzweil is actually describing something very much like Hawkins's HTM model *at* a certain level of abstraction. He makes some other interesting comments about Lisp that might strike some here as biz

Re: The human brain works the Lisp way!

2011-01-06 Thread Michael Aldred
G'day Arie, You have to be very careful about listening to things Ray Kurzweil says when he's talking about the brain, etc. I would think it would be better to listen to someone actually conducting brain/AI research, for example, Jeff Hawkins. His company Numenta seems to be making great progres