If you haven’t seen it already, the work of Grossberg and Hawkins might be suitable for this kind of research. These two researchers are perhaps the most influential in my understanding of intelligence.
Here is a representative sample of their work but major works stretch back decades.
Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex, Hawkins, doi:10.3389/fncir.2016.00023
Towards solving the hard problem of consciousness: The varieties of brain resonances and the conscious experiences that they support, Grossberg, doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2016.11.003
A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex, Hawkins, doi:10.1101/442418
A half century of progress towards a unified neural theory of mind and brain with applications to autonomous adaptive agents and mental disorders, Grossberg, ISBN:978-0-12-815480-9
I’m extremely familiar with the work of Jeff Hawkins—I’ve read his book and pretty much all his papers, I occasionally tune into the Numenta research meetings on youtube, and read the Numenta forums, etc. In fact I cited one of Hawkins’s papers in this very blog post. Here’s the first time I ever heard about cortical uniformity, which was a podcast he did last year. I think he’s had a lot of insightful ideas about the neocortex works, despite working with his hands tied behind his back, by his refusal (or inability) to talk about probabilities. (...which is why Dileep George quit Numenta back in the day).
I’ve had a Stephen Grossberg paper on my to-do list for a while (namely, “Towards a Unified Theory of the Neocortex” 2006). Thanks for the tip, maybe I’ll move it closer to the top of the list and/or look at the others you suggest. :-)
UPDATE: Stephen Grossberg is great! I just listened to his interview on the “Brain Inspired” podcast. His ideas seem to fit right in with the ideas I had already been latching onto. I’ll be reading more. Thanks again for the tip!
If you haven’t seen it already, the work of Grossberg and Hawkins might be suitable for this kind of research. These two researchers are perhaps the most influential in my understanding of intelligence.
Here is a representative sample of their work but major works stretch back decades.
Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex, Hawkins, doi:10.3389/fncir.2016.00023
Towards solving the hard problem of consciousness: The varieties of brain resonances and the conscious experiences that they support, Grossberg, doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2016.11.003
A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex, Hawkins, doi:10.1101/442418
A half century of progress towards a unified neural theory of mind and brain with applications to autonomous adaptive agents and mental disorders, Grossberg, ISBN:978-0-12-815480-9
I’m extremely familiar with the work of Jeff Hawkins—I’ve read his book and pretty much all his papers, I occasionally tune into the Numenta research meetings on youtube, and read the Numenta forums, etc. In fact I cited one of Hawkins’s papers in this very blog post. Here’s the first time I ever heard about cortical uniformity, which was a podcast he did last year. I think he’s had a lot of insightful ideas about the neocortex works, despite working with his hands tied behind his back, by his refusal (or inability) to talk about probabilities. (...which is why Dileep George quit Numenta back in the day).
I’ve had a Stephen Grossberg paper on my to-do list for a while (namely, “Towards a Unified Theory of the Neocortex” 2006). Thanks for the tip, maybe I’ll move it closer to the top of the list and/or look at the others you suggest. :-)
UPDATE: Stephen Grossberg is great! I just listened to his interview on the “Brain Inspired” podcast. His ideas seem to fit right in with the ideas I had already been latching onto. I’ll be reading more. Thanks again for the tip!