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by SubiculumCode 1672 days ago
On any serious discussion of neuroscience, I'd advise to keep Jeff Hawkins out of it. Not only are the ideas he publishes often gross simplifications with little data to back it up (but does wonders as marketing), they were ideas pushed and developed by real working neuroscientists. Just my opinion.
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isn't that pretty face value what Numenta's goal is though? They read research papers on neuroscience and try to distill it down to applicable engineering problems for their HTM and see what works.

i can't speak much as to their original research efforts, but i personally appreciate the engineering-research side of what they are doing.

I personally don't mind what his company is doing, but I just don't think his views represent the understandings of my field all that well.
What resource would you recommend for getting an intro to those topics in neuroscience, that provides a better representation?
google scholar