The book is "Computational Models for
Neuroscience"
( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1852335939/qid%3D1058710388/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-0312061-9441635),
for which he is a co-editor, and he has a chapter in it, "A Theory of
Thalamocortex".
The claim he made in that chapter
Well the short gist of this guy's spiel is that Lenat is on the right track. The key
is to accumulate terabytes of stupid, temporally forward associations between elements.
A little background check reveals that this guy isn't a complete nutcase. He's got
some publications (but not many),
Brad Wyble wrote:
Well the short gist of this guy's spiel is that Lenat is on
the right track.
My understanding was that he argues that Lenat is on the wrong
track! Lenat is trying to accumulate a large body of relatively
high level logical rules about the world. This is very hard to
do and
