Hacking the Brain

This is an extremely interesting video by William Softky, who among many other accomplishments, invented and managed a key innovation in Microsoft’s PreFix automatic debugging technology, which nearly eliminated “Blue Screen of Death” crashes in Windows 2000/XP.

The brain seems to carry out nearly all its sensory perception using generic, interchangeable modules, each of which learns (from scratch) to represent and process whatever signals it is exposed to. But what does each module actually do? What is the “API” between modules such that they can all learn and work in harmony? Is there a “mother of all algorithms” that will finally make robotics useful – and the mind better understood?

Hacking the brain by predicting the future and inverting the un-invertible