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 bizarre but make sense to me in context of the Lisp & AI knowledge representation world of the 70s and 80s.
-Lee On Jan 6, 2011, at 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 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 progress with HTM which he outlined > in his book 'On Intelligence'. > > Papers are also available on numenta.com > > Now I'm really not top notch on my computer science/math and AI, but > from what I understand of HTM, which is based off the biological > structure of the brain, I think that saying the brain is like a LISP > processor doesn't make sense. But of course I haven't watched the > video, so he may explain his reasoning. But without a bigger context > I'm very doubtful of such statements. > > Thanks for the link though, I will look at it later. > > Cheers > > On Jan 6, 7:45 pm, Arie van Wingerden <xapw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> on this >> pagehttp://singularityhub.com/2010/12/21/ray-kurzweil-the-mind-and-how-to... >> you >> can find a video in which Ray Kurzweil speaks about the "reverse >> engineering" of the human brain. >> >> At 39:25 Ray states that "... the cerebral cortex is a Lisp processor." and >> explains that later. >> >> Maybe it is off topic, but I think it may be very interesting to a lot of >> you. >> >> Kind regards, >> Arie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- Lee Spector, Professor of Computer Science Cognitive Science, Hampshire College 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-3359 lspec...@hampshire.edu, http://hampshire.edu/lspector/ Phone: 413-559-5352, Fax: 413-559-5438 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
