Jeff Hawkins -- On Intelligence
Yeah. Brains are cool.
It's neat to read about an elegant and fully integrated theory on human intelligence. Plus it's very approachable.
"You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding."
"The brain uses the same process to see as to hear. The cortex does something universal that can be applied to any type of sensory or motor system."
"Intelligence is measured by the capacity to remember and predict patterns in the world, including language, mathematics, physical properties of objects, and social situations. Your brain receives patterns from the outside world, stores them as memories, and makes predictions by combining what it has seen before and what is happening now."
"The real world's nested structured is mirrored by the nested structure of your cortex."
"Predictability is the very definition of reality. If a region of cortex finds it can reliably and predictably move among these input patterns using a series of physical motions (such as saccades of the eyes or fondling with the fingers) and can predict them accurately as they unfold in time (such as the sounds comprising a song or a spoken word), the brain interprets these as having a causal relationship."
"to predict what we will sense next, we have to know what actions we are undertaking. Motor behavior and sensory perception are highly interdependent."
"Try to program a computer to find similarities between objects such as pianos and vibraphones and you will see how incredibly difficult this is. Prediction by analogy -- creativity -- is so pervasive we normally don't notice it."
"Pseudoscience, bigotry, faith, and intolerance are often rooted in false analogy."
It's neat to read about an elegant and fully integrated theory on human intelligence. Plus it's very approachable.
"You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding."
"The brain uses the same process to see as to hear. The cortex does something universal that can be applied to any type of sensory or motor system."
"Intelligence is measured by the capacity to remember and predict patterns in the world, including language, mathematics, physical properties of objects, and social situations. Your brain receives patterns from the outside world, stores them as memories, and makes predictions by combining what it has seen before and what is happening now."
"The real world's nested structured is mirrored by the nested structure of your cortex."
"Predictability is the very definition of reality. If a region of cortex finds it can reliably and predictably move among these input patterns using a series of physical motions (such as saccades of the eyes or fondling with the fingers) and can predict them accurately as they unfold in time (such as the sounds comprising a song or a spoken word), the brain interprets these as having a causal relationship."
"to predict what we will sense next, we have to know what actions we are undertaking. Motor behavior and sensory perception are highly interdependent."
"Try to program a computer to find similarities between objects such as pianos and vibraphones and you will see how incredibly difficult this is. Prediction by analogy -- creativity -- is so pervasive we normally don't notice it."
"Pseudoscience, bigotry, faith, and intolerance are often rooted in false analogy."