TED-Talk on Brain Science
Check out Jeff Hawkins’ TED-Talk about the brain. There is no reasonable brain theory yet - but Hawkins has some clues where to start. Intelligence, he claims, is not defined by behaviour but by prediction. Our brain is constantly making predictions about our enviroment. It stores sequential patterns and recalls them constantly. That’s what makes you know the end of a sentence before you heard or read it as a whole.
I am thinking about, how Hawkins’ views can be applied to brainstorming. Are we breaking up the straight forward recollection of sequential patterns? We play tricks on the brain by creating exceptional situations. We try to stimulate it so that associations and connotations bubble out of the neocortex. Try doing this with a supercomputer. A.I. still has a long way to go.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Dear Predictors and Futurologists,
If you are interested in creative, fantastical literature, which to a certain extent has a predictive nature (’Sci-Fi’ classification), then please keep the German Website ‘http://www.postskriptum.ch’ in mind!
It will open its gates in about 2-3 weeks.
Philipp