Congrats to Hinton, et al on publishing. Should see more info at NIPS 2017 in December. Quite admirable, embarking on a late-career "Year Zero" course correctio

Congrats to Hinton, et al on publishing. Should see more info at NIPS 2017 in December. Quite admirable, embarking on a late-career "Year Zero" course correction, all in the name of advancing the field ;) How does the human brain handle "invariance"? Not just of the spatial variety. But transformational, temporal, conceptual, and auditory invariance as well? Some background on "columns" from bio-inspired computational neuroscience startup Numeta: Why Does the Neocortex Have Layers and Columns, A Theory of Learning the 3D Structure of the World https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/07/12/162263.full.pdf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/07/12/162...