Building Brainlike Computers

newtronic clues us to an article in IEEE Spectrum by Jeff Hawkins (founder of Palm Computing), titled Why can't a computer be more like a brain? Hawkins brings us up to date with his latest endeavor, Numenta. He covers progress since his book On Intelligence and gives details on Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), which is a platform for simulating neocortical activity. Programming HTMs is different — you essentially feed them sensory data. Numenta has created a framework and tools, free in a "research release," that allow anyone to build and program HTMs.

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Re:this is stupid

[HolyCrapSCOsux]

It's a fact that god created man.

That is a belief. Nothing more. I personally believe the inverse is true. That man created god. The transposition also makes the "in his own image" part quite plausible.

Man cannot hope to understand god, so how can we create something equivalent to a thing he made?

That doesn't even make sense. By extension, since we cannot understand man, we also cannot understand anything man makes?

The fact that you are only able to be rude shows that you don't have anything substantial to add to the debate.

I am not aware that having a valid argument depends in any way upon the politeness of the response. I'm not saying the argument is a good one, merely that you reply is more driven by emotion than logic. Empathy is also not a requirement in debate.

So the FACT about how the brain works is, Nobody knows, many don't care, some are dedicating their lives to find out, and others are scorning those peoples life's work as useless and irrelevant.

Re:been there, done that...

[Ultra64]

Right. In addition, the metatarsals must recombinate the remaining vectors to illustrate the potentiality of neuronal stimuli. While this is ok for your standard distention, due to quantum tunneling it won't work as well as realigning the core intellect and remodulating the phase emitters.