Fergal Byrne: From Synapses to Symphonies - the Brain as Dynamical Systems Modeller
Channel: Fergal Byrne
Date: 2015-09-06

Talk given at Clojure Ireland, July 1st, 2015. Since Jeff Hawkins introduced his Hierarchical Temporal Memory theory to Strange Loop in 2012, an "open source science" community has grown up around the theory and its application. In the last few months, we have made some important discoveries, combining recent results from Complex Dynamical Systems and Network Science, which uncover the neocortex as a universal machine for modelling and forecasting the complex dynamics of the natural world, including other minds. Now, we are already building out the technology which we believe is the foundation of machine intelligence. The "strange loops" Doug Hofstaedter discovered in the mind turn out to be specifically designed to model those of the real world.

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