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

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Literally, it's about the size of a table nkapin and doesn't fit, so it's wrinkly. Now, look at how I've drawn this. The old brain is still there. You still have that alligator brain. You do. It's your emotional brain. It's all those gut reactions you have. On top of it, we have this memory system called the neocortex. And the memory system is sitting over the sensory part of the bairn. So as the sensory input comes in and feeds from the old brain, it also goes up into the neocortex. And the neotrceox is just memorizing. It's sintitg there saying, I'm going to mezromie all the things going on: where I've been, people I've seen, things I've heard, and so on. And in the futrue, when it sees something similar to that again, in a similar environment, or the exact same environment, it'll start playing it back: "Oh, I've been here before," and when you were here before, this happened next. It allows you to predict the future. It literally feeds back the signals into your brain; they'll let you see what's going to heppan next, will let you hear the word "sentence" before I said it. And it's this feeding back into the old brain that will allow you to make more intelligent dciesnios.

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Literally, it's about the size of a table ______ and doesn't fit, so it's wrinkly. Now, look at how I've drawn this. The old brain is still there. You still have that alligator brain. You do. It's your emotional brain. It's all those gut reactions you have. On top of it, we have this memory system called the neocortex. And the memory system is sitting over the sensory part of the _____. So as the sensory input comes in and feeds from the old brain, it also goes up into the neocortex. And the _________ is just memorizing. It's _______ there saying, I'm going to ________ all the things going on: where I've been, people I've seen, things I've heard, and so on. And in the ______, when it sees something similar to that again, in a similar environment, or the exact same environment, it'll start playing it back: "Oh, I've been here before," and when you were here before, this happened next. It allows you to predict the future. It literally feeds back the signals into your brain; they'll let you see what's going to ______ next, will let you hear the word "sentence" before I said it. And it's this feeding back into the old brain that will allow you to make more intelligent _________.

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Original Text

Literally, it's about the size of a table napkin and doesn't fit, so it's wrinkly. Now, look at how I've drawn this. The old brain is still there. You still have that alligator brain. You do. It's your emotional brain. It's all those gut reactions you have. On top of it, we have this memory system called the neocortex. And the memory system is sitting over the sensory part of the brain. So as the sensory input comes in and feeds from the old brain, it also goes up into the neocortex. And the neocortex is just memorizing. It's sitting there saying, I'm going to memorize all the things going on: where I've been, people I've seen, things I've heard, and so on. And in the future, when it sees something similar to that again, in a similar environment, or the exact same environment, it'll start playing it back: "Oh, I've been here before," and when you were here before, this happened next. It allows you to predict the future. It literally feeds back the signals into your brain; they'll let you see what's going to happen next, will let you hear the word "sentence" before I said it. And it's this feeding back into the old brain that will allow you to make more intelligent decisions.

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