ahem.. and I bet you know exactly what it is. — I thought the world mirrored the mind…

“Sounds” fun! =)
Except for the “Simply explained” bit — just kidding ^_^

Although if I get any more “inspired” I might explode, maybe I’ll download that later too (if not already in the database) after I finish with Kurzweil’s Book =P I’m trying to mine new insights I may not already have figured after jeff hawkins.. I dont think taking it to “established computer science paradigms” — like that numenta deserter advocates — is advised at this stage, which seems what kurzweil seems to be doing (maybe under his influence =P though K certainly has this tendency himself) Also, there is no need for a “name” dendrite! There are no names there (he contradicts this very principle he establishes earlier, he calls it labels), pure association takes care of everything! This is ethereal*, yes, but there would be little room for intelligence if there was only one modality (which this would allow) — except for touch though, which can use geometry to express intelligence, e.g. worms.

But think of music, since we’re On this topic, even here there are multiple modalities, rhythm, melody, tone, volume, and you could interact (the currency of intelligence) using any of them BUT, assuming you had or picked (by keeping the others constant for instance) only one, there would be no way to “name” anything, the “name” would be the pattern itself! There would be no intelligent answer if someone asked such a system, for example, what melody it likes best, or even ‘what was that last melody I just played?’… its only option would be to play the whole pattern again… OR worse, use one pattern (a BEEP) and make a kind of morse code to communicate, which is cheating =) [equivalent to appending a binary beep encoding before each melody == cheating, since it would simply go up the hierarchy and K would say "see! it's a name", but no, for one thing, you changed the original pattern]

*I’ll resist indulging in Bri’s clichès about turtles =)

You are probably NOT Ms. Gildert, right?
Who inaugurated teleXLR8 / openqwaq by giving a talk about Quantum Computing?
If so, maybe you remember a randomly named entity (user19 if I recall) asking an extremely important question regarding the usefulness of quantum computers — or lack thereof — which was completed misinterpreted by Giulio, the host, and subsequently reinterpreted by another user, by then too late to warrant a coherent thoughtful response?

Actually it is THREE-FOLD, musically:

1) First Adopters Guinea-pigs* will hear this:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8rZWw9HE7o
2) Most will hear this:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRzO-pYFiR4
3) But actually it will be more like this:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7J6qdei7vs

– Note how music is central to all of these=)

*Homophobic acronym not intended. Though there was one clip ending with Tom Cruise hugging the other guy by the theme of “take my breath away”…

Didn’t Pythagoras know something similar to this 2500 years ago?

Interesting…