I think that intelligence is more likely to correlate with number and size of regions, not layers.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Valtér Hégér <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff is going to hate this idea as it is not yet found in nature!! > The neo-cortex is made up of four layers. My guess is that at one time > this started off as just one layer, which evolved to split into two and > eventually four. What if more layers are added to this model? Isn't this > the next step of evolution? > The reason why this is interesting is that I was listening to Michio > Kaku's *The Future of the Mind* and started thinking about his > description of levels of intelligence, N0 (simple feedback system like a > thermostat), N1 (e.g. insect which can react to their surroundings), N2 > (creatures which are able to work collectively and identify gestures in > others), N3 (system able to project multiple scenarios into the future). > The question is what's the next level of intelligence able to do, which we > as humans cannot? Does intelligence roughly correlate to the number of > membranes in the neo-cortex? A wild speculation is that N4 should be able > to run all of these scenarios in parallel and able to process them > simultaneously, sort of simulate a quantum processor? I think this line of > reasoning was triggered by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind > article. Has anyone tried to expand NuPIC to allow for more layers? >
