Status Updates From How to Create a Mind: The S...

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.