Well, for starters, the view that a mind has to di...

2009-03-08T00:59:00.000-03:00

Well, for starters, the view that a mind has to discover "causes" in the outside world. I love Hawkins and etc, but he's in engineering speed here, and he's bypassing the numerous struggles philosophers have (and have had) concerning causality.

The second point is that he mentions once or twice that perception is some kind of one-to-one or many-to-one mapping, and that is just far, far from truth. I wrote at length about this precise issue in Artificial Intelligence, back in 2000.

In any case, I haven't met the guy, so maybe he's changed a bit his views. I'm certain that his is one of the best work in brain modeling. But his speed is not adequate to the task he faces. He seems to be moving on to classify pictures of dogs versus pictures of cats. That's like Santos Dummont trying to go to the moon, in my opinion. Well if he does pull that one out, he certainly nailed it.

My group is competing, but we have a much slower timeline of progress. We want to bridge two theories, and there are many levels needed to bridge those theories. We expect to work on two or three of these levels in 2009--2010, and see where we get. We expect to have serious results somewhere around 2015. Before huge advances are made, there will be no cat versus dog classification system in this planet, outside an animal's brain or a DNA machine.

hey,

You said: "And some of his philosophic...

2009-03-07T06:45:00.000-03:00

hey,

You said: "And some of his philosophical perspectives are simply plain wrong."

Could you elaborate more on that?

Thanx

Comments on The Human Intuition Project: The Economist's look at Jeff Hawkins

Well, for starters, the view that a mind has to di...

hey,You said: "And some of his philosophic...

hey,

You said: "And some of his philosophic...