No this hasn't been discussed here. As you say, it is a meta conversation. If there are others who want to discuss this kind of research you might want to start a separate email thread as it is pretty far removed from most of what NuPIC is about. There is a big gap between understanding how ensembles of neurons process information and measured IQ in living humans. Obviously psychology (and IQ) are based on neural structures but to me we have a long way to go before we can unite these two fields.
Occasionally you can find some connections. For example some scientists argue that dyslexia is simply a problem with slow processing in neural tissue. The left side of the cortex, where language is, is more heavily myelinated than the right side of the cortex. Mylenation makes action potentials travel faster. If you slow down speech, a dyslexic child starts to understand more normally. The speculation is that poor myelination in the left hemisphere could cause dyslexia. This is an idea that bridges low level neuroscience with high level intelligent phenomena. These kind of examples are rare though. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: nupic [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hannu Kettinen Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 6:30 AM To: NuPIC general mailing list. Subject: [nupic-dev] A Strong Interactive Link between Sensory Discriminations and Intelligence Folks, Has this been discussed here before? And if not, what are your thoughts on this? source: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/Duje/papers/13_Melnick_IQ_CB.pdf It all started with a question, why do some people have higher IQ than others, I have my own theories but to me this paper is very exciting. If we can identify the factors that separate us IQ wise, we should be able to tweak those factors to boost IQ. (virtual or real for what it's worth). I know this is a meta discussion for this ml, but I am just wondering if anyone else have been looking at the issues/possibilities from this kind of perspective? Personally I am not worried about the technicals behind it, because the path Jeff is on can be combined with certain other features and algorithms to create a solid scalable prediction framework with capabilities far from 'just' prediction and anomaly detection in temporal sensory input. _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
