The Bolsom Machine and the Learning Algorithm

It was essentially a mathematical structure, not particularly intended at the time to have direct sort of correspondence with things in the brain. But it would allow you to do this thing of going from many possible inputs that could represent, I don't know, a letter A or, you know,. Many possible things that might be like a letter A, and it would go to the actual sort of single point attractor of it's an A or it's a. It led to the Bolsom machine and a really nice learning algorithm. So it was a breakthrough, I think, in the conception of the thing.