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As a former cognitive neuroscientist, claiming that a region as large as the neocortex has a single underlying principle that explains it all sets off my oversi
by KingMob 13y ago
As a former cognitive neuroscientist, claiming that a region as large as the neocortex has a single underlying principle that explains it all sets off my oversimplification alarm bells...
I'm sure the code is great for machine learning purposes, but I doubt his theory has much bearing on how brains work. The brain is one of the most heterogenous and complex structures in the solar system.
- joe_the_user 13y agoCare to go into greater detail? The thing is, the hypothesis that there is a more-or-less basic neocortical algorithm wouldn't be disproved by modest amounts of variation in the neocortex. And position that the neocortex is rather uniform is fairly standard neurophysiology as far as I can tell. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/02/1221398110.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/02/1221398110.abst...