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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Hawkins: How brain science will change computing

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So we're now able to do very sophisticated motor planning, things like that. I don't have time to explain, but to understand how a brain wkros, you have to understand how the first part of the mammalian neocortex works, how it is we store patterns and make predictions. Let me give you a few eealmxps of predictions. I already said the word "sentence." In muisc, if you've hread a song before, when you hear it, the next note pops into your head already — you anticipate it. With an album, at the end of a song, the next song pops into your head. It happens all the time, you make piconedtirs.

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So we're now able to do very sophisticated motor planning, things like that. I don't have time to explain, but to understand how a brain _____, you have to understand how the first part of the mammalian neocortex works, how it is we store patterns and make predictions. Let me give you a few ________ of predictions. I already said the word "sentence." In _____, if you've _____ a song before, when you hear it, the next note pops into your head already — you anticipate it. With an album, at the end of a song, the next song pops into your head. It happens all the time, you make ___________.

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  1. works
  2. heard
  3. predictions
  4. examples
  5. music

Original Text

So we're now able to do very sophisticated motor planning, things like that. I don't have time to explain, but to understand how a brain works, you have to understand how the first part of the mammalian neocortex works, how it is we store patterns and make predictions. Let me give you a few examples of predictions. I already said the word "sentence." In music, if you've heard a song before, when you hear it, the next note pops into your head already — you anticipate it. With an album, at the end of a song, the next song pops into your head. It happens all the time, you make predictions.

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