The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine
This article presents an emerging architectural hypothesis of the brain as a biological implementation of aUniversal Learning Machine. I present a rough but complete architectural view of how the brain works under the universal learning hypothesis. I also contrast this new viewpoint - which comes from computational neuroscience and machine learning - with the older evolved modularity hypothesis popular in evolutionary psychology and the heuristics and biases literature. These two conceptions of ...
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