Also, I like the papers linked here by Eugene Izhikevich: http://www.izhikevich.org/publications/index.htm
The new links discussing the capsule neural networks are somewhat reminiscent of this polychronous computation paper: http://www.izhikevich.org/publications/polychronous_wavefron....
https://hackernoon.com/what-is-a-capsnet-or-capsule-network-...