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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 the brain lead toverydifferent predictions for the likely route to AGI, the value of neuroscience, t...

Before Social and Emotional Learning became widely recognized as a critical component of teen lives, Marisa Fogelman was well ahead of the curve.  Fogelman spent two decades developing a curriculum that integrated SEL with California state standards for traditional subject matter, and put her holistic academic philosophy into practice as co-founder of the School of Universal Learning (SOUL), a charter school for students in grades 6-12.  SOUL was perhaps the first school in San Diego County to offer such a unique concept.  Now shuttered after several years of successful and promising opera...