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 * Group discussions about what you would have a hard time explaining to your folks.
 * Judged characteristics between the different sexes to see how this would be represented in three dimensional vector space.



Hawkins Ch. 3 Reading Questions

What does Hawkins mean when he says he is interested in building intelligent machines, not humans? What makes humans smarter than other animals? What type of evidence indicates that the cortex is comprised of many functional areas? What is a hierarchical system? What do the association areas of the cortex do? What is the oversimplified view of cortical organization that Hawkins is arguing against? Describe the structure of a pyramidal cell. What is Mountcastle's organizing principle? In what sense have scientists and engineers ignored Mountcastle's principles? What types of evidence support Mountcastle's proposal? What is the implication of the ferret "re-wiring" study? Distinguish between a temporal and spatial visual pattern. Distinguish between a temporal and spatial hearing pattern. Why don't we need the senses to be intelligent?