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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Inquiring Minds

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What Is the Difference Between Near and Near Cortex?

The cortex stores knowledge about everything in reference frames. We can think of a reference point when it comes to vision now, or movement. So for example, if i think of a fire truck, there are other kind of references that come up straight away. But what about things ina very abstract, like thematics or democracy or humanity? Oi, but tell me about that. And so we studied touch and vision and hearing,. because that was a way to ask sot piece apart, or tease apart, what's going on in one section of the inear cortext. If mouncastle was true, then that same circu tus are being applied everywhere. Yoyoy

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