Embedded engineering by trade, ancient hippy and amateur neuroscientist by accident. Photographs things for pleasure. Likes eating. Loves that prog rock!
Dec 29, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Some of the sub-threads on the DL/symbolic debate stray into the area of emotion. I seem to see this in a very different light than those that think the brain works out the value of actions and selects them from a pure logic POV.
In this post I outline the intersection of the limbic and cortical system with the this point being the hippocampus.
All episodic memories are colored with the emotion of the outcome of the episode: discourse.numenta.org/t/the-thousand…
Dec 29, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Dr Marcus, I will admit that I have not read them all your writings - what I have read has not inspired me to read more so I may have missed where you addressed my concerns.
This is the core of my problems with what I have read - the brain does not seem to work like you are describing. You seem to base your explanations as if the brain processes things like we see them out here in sensory space.
