on intelligence
i've been reading an excellent book, On Intelligence by Palm mastermind Jeff Hawkins and would *strongly* recommend it to anyone who has the capacity to think outside oneself. the book is basically a breakdown of Hawkins' theory of what creates intelligence as is inherent in the human cortex. even if you don't agree with all of his theory, which i don't, it's a pretty solid piece of work. what really brings me to make this point is wondering where in his framework deja vu fits. i haven't finished the book yet, so he may actually cover it, but my assumption is that your brain can create higher level pattern assumptions based on inputs it has received and then start to ignore the underlying pieces of what created those assumptions in the first place.
broken down, your brain, if the assumption holds, forms layers of patterns through repetitions of input and feedback and the assumptions/predictions formed in the higher levels of your cortex based on that input/feedback(that's the super-simplified version). now, suppose you receive multiple inputs on a lower level that create the same higher level prediction...suppose the lower level predictions are sparse enough to be forgotten, but the higher level assumption, based upon the multiple lower-level inputs remains intact. this, or, perhaps integral prediction based on coinciding subsets of lower level inputs, is where i believe deja vu comes from...
which, of course, makes perfect sense to me and probably has most people wondering wtf i'm talking about...again...
broken down, your brain, if the assumption holds, forms layers of patterns through repetitions of input and feedback and the assumptions/predictions formed in the higher levels of your cortex based on that input/feedback(that's the super-simplified version). now, suppose you receive multiple inputs on a lower level that create the same higher level prediction...suppose the lower level predictions are sparse enough to be forgotten, but the higher level assumption, based upon the multiple lower-level inputs remains intact. this, or, perhaps integral prediction based on coinciding subsets of lower level inputs, is where i believe deja vu comes from...
which, of course, makes perfect sense to me and probably has most people wondering wtf i'm talking about...again...