Re:Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
by joe_the_user on Monday July 01, 2019 @03:47PM
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I wonder whether the cortex may be a kind of FPGA wired up by the limbic system, not naturally containing the machinery for general learning, and a red herring to the pursuit of general intelligence.
The challenge is to discover the nature of "general intelligence", I'd say. To me, it seems like GE would not actually be a set of specific behaviors but rather a processes that integrates, extends, mediates between, connects etc specific behaviors. Probably whatever-does-GE would both program and be-programmed-by the limbic system and whatever other systems it relates to, and given this the cortex like a good candidate given that it accompanies the human ability to active "generally" (and it is quite possible that similar functionality might reside in a different system in different brains see comment by derefr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20328311).
The challenge is to discover the nature of "general intelligence", I'd say. To me, it seems like GE would not actually be a set of specific behaviors but rather a processes that integrates, extends, mediates between, connects etc specific behaviors. Probably whatever-does-GE would both program and be-programmed-by the limbic system and whatever other systems it relates to, and given this the cortex like a good candidate given that it accompanies the human ability to active "generally" (and it is quite possible that similar functionality might reside in a different system in different brains see comment by derefr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20328311).