Lagroht Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 Jeff Hawkins runs a company that is dedicated to creating software that can mimic the human neocortex. I think his theory on how the brain works corroborates with the theory of concepts postulated by ayn rand. Specifically with here notion of the hierarchical nature of knowledge. He bases his work on the latest scientific data about the brain which indicates that the human neocortex is itself wired hierarchical, which then would also be reflected in an hierarchical stucture of concepts, which in turn can only, properly, refer to the evidence of the senses. In this video Jeff talks about his theory: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2500845581503718756 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grames Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 A new lecture dated 18 Mar 2010 is available here (length 1 hour). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grames Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Jeff Hawkins is one of those bottom-up reality oriented people I approve of. In what might be the first captured nontechnical application of his theory, here in (6:14) he seems to suggest beliefs can be changed by eroding away at them from the bottom, not by top down argumentation. He does not use the word induction, but he is describing belief formation as an inductive process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasmatic Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 I watched the vid from the OP when it was originally posted. I was very impressed with him and his work. Gonna watch the vid you posted tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindy Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Jeff Hawkins runs a company that is dedicated to creating software that can mimic the human neocortex. I think his theory on how the brain works corroborates with the theory of concepts postulated by ayn rand. Specifically with here notion of the hierarchical nature of knowledge. He bases his work on the latest scientific data about the brain which indicates that the human neocortex is itself wired hierarchical, which then would also be reflected in an hierarchical stucture of concepts, which in turn can only, properly, refer to the evidence of the senses. In this video Jeff talks about his theory: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2500845581503718756 Rand did not discover the hierarchical structure of concepts or knowledge! -- Mindy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knast Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Rand did not discover the hierarchical structure of concepts or knowledge! -- Mindy Who have discovered it before her? I suspect many people have known about it at least implicitly for some time. But in any event, I have not heard of anybody who saw the implication of the explicit realization of this fact before Ayn Rand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plasmatic Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Aristotle had hierarchy,first principles/arch principles etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gramlich Posted July 22, 2010 Report Share Posted July 22, 2010 That video was extraordinarily interesting. Thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonid Posted July 24, 2010 Report Share Posted July 24, 2010 This hierarchy apparently is a feature of every living being. See: Biology & Philosophy © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 10.1007/s10539-007-9079-5 Nano-intentionality: a defense of intrinsic intentionality W. Tecumseh Fitch1 (1) School of Psychology, St Mary’s Quad, University of St Andrews, Rm 2.57, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9JP, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZAC D. Posted July 31, 2010 Report Share Posted July 31, 2010 (edited) Has anyone here read Carl Sagan's Dragons of Eden? Inwhich He talks about the evolutional hierarchy of human intelligence. Edited July 31, 2010 by ZAC D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grames Posted August 8, 2011 Report Share Posted August 8, 2011 New video, 10 minutes. Jeff Hawkins on Understanding the Brain From MIT150 Symposia: Brains, Minds and Machines (2011) Takeaways: the fundamentality of sparse distributed representation, and past implementations of computer neuron models don't simulate actual neurons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grames Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 (1 hour 13 minutes Beckman Institute lecture) Now he's got contextual recognition added to his lecture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grames Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 "Jeff Hawkins presented the opening keynote address of the 39th International Symposium on Computer Architecture on June 11, 2012 in Portland, OR. In this presentation, Jeff describes sparse distributed representations, and their impact on future computer architectures." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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