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Hacking the Brain

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?

November 23, 2009

Brain science

Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain — to see it as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

August 10, 2009 · 6 Comments
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