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Ch.7; -Brain Simulations, mentioned the projects that are concerned about simulating a human brain, like Blue Brain Project and Whole Brain Emulation: A Road map, by Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg. - NeuralNets. foundation for AI

Got a bit too technical for me.

I love coming across new authors that write about their passions, and this one is a great example. Ray Kurzweil has the ideal mind (I speak for myself of course), and through this book will I find the expanse of his ideas. ❤️ (fanning so hard right now!)

Sebastian Seung says, " Identity lies not in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells."

Ch. 7; The bilogically inspired digital neocortex

Creativity; so one way to achieve greater creativity is by effectively assemblingmore neocprtex. clouding. Love; mentioned which biochemical is released like dopamine and its effect on our neocortex.

Ch. 6, Transcendent Abilities. spindle cells. -Aptitude, genuis relation with nature and nurture.

Ch. 5; The Old Brain; - The Sensory pathway, visual processing in AI "Sparse Coding" auditory processing model "Audience, Inc."... -The Thalamus "direct attention", -The Hippocampus "remember novel events", -The Cerebullum "movement, balance" -Pleasure & Fear "Dopamine, Serotonin, amygdala, adrenaline, fight or flight.

Ch. 4; The Biological Neocortex. many important researchs on the neocortex neoron mechanism. - The basic algorithm of the neocortical recognition modules is equivalent across the neocortex from "low level" modules, which deal with the most basic sensory patterns, to "high level" modules, which recognize the most abstract concepts. - The AI techniques turn out to be mathemativally equivalent to thr brain techniques.

Ch. 3; The language of thought, patterns triggered in the neocortex trigger other patterns. Partially complete patterns send signals down the conceptual hierarchy, completed patterns send signals up the conceptual hierarchy. These neocortical patterns are the language of thought. - The language of dreams. - The roots of the model.

Ch 3, - Autoassociation and Invariance; Pattern recognizing capabilities. - Learning; our neacortex is learning by connections between its pattern recognizers. - The Blue Project; simulate the human neocortex. - We can learn one or at most 2 conceptual levels at a time. - Linear Programming is a mathematical solution which solves for the best allocation of limited resources.

Ch.3; -The steucture of a pattern, pattern recognizer modulesare organized in hierarchies, each pattern recognizers is composed of 3 parts, 1) the input, 2) the pattern's name, 3) the set of higher level patterns. * hierarchical hidden Markov model. - The nature of the data flowing into a neocortical pattern recognizer;.

Ch. 3; A model of the neocortex: The pattern recognition theory of mind. -A hierarchy of pattern & Pattern recognizer -1/2 million cortical columns in a human neocortex, containing 60,000, about 30 billion neurons in the neocortex. -A human master in a particular field has mastered about 100,000 chunks of knowledge. -"processing" a pattern: LEARN IT, PREDICT IT, RECOGNIZE IT, and IMPLEMENT IT.

Ch. 2; Thought experiments on Thinking; explaining our memory mechanism through some exercises, and how he will show in the next chapter the result of these thought experiments together into a theory of how the neocortex work.

Ch. 1; Thought Experiments on the world; - A metaphor from geology: discuss Darwin's evolution theory. - Riding on a light beam: describs Einstein's thought and how he developed his theories while ha was day dreaming.

Introduction, his previous work; 3 books, Law of Accelerating Returns LOAR, in this book he will present his thesis Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind PRTM. "Keep in mind that greatly amplifying a natural phenomenon is precisely what engineering is capable of doing"

Great read!

Absolutely fascinating!

I have finished now I want to go through some of the supporting material in the end notes...

I will start it againt with a different thougth...

I'm already bored. I hope this gets better. This book may be better suited for those without any background in this topic.

This is really hard, you guys.

Why I'm not reading this book?

Starting of chapter 7

page two and it's already blowing my mind wow

This is heavy and new rugged terrain. A keeper

HHMM is a thing. I don't know what it means except i can simulate your brain if you talk.

The first 3% of this book annoyed me. The next 20 is pretty damn interesting.

تا اینجا می شد حجم کتاب نصف باشه.

Amazing!!!