Indeed very unfortunate. From numenta's website descriptions of nupic (the C++ HTM implementation), one can immediately shout Greenspun's Tenth Rule. What moti

Indeed very unfortunate. From numenta's website descriptions of nupic (the C++ HTM implementation), one can immediately shout Greenspun's Tenth Rule. What motivated my wild comparison of HTMs and Lisp is: - HTMs do not distinguish program and data. - HTMs are fractal like a Lisp parse tree: sameness of structure at any level. - HTMs program themselves from input, analogous to Lisp programs' ability to change themselves at run time. Whether the brain actually uses HTMs or not: as far as I know (as a researcher in neuroscience), the HTM structure fits a simplified description of cortex microarchitecture. As Hawkins says, the field of neuromorphic engineering and computation is in its infancy.