Cortical Circuitry

It is a computer scientist’s immediate instinct to compare the cortex to a CPU of a computer. It is natural to do so – the cortex performs functions, like math, that we usually associate with processing. However, humans have not yet built anything that could be accurately compared to the cortex.

[As evidenced by a lack of all-out warfare between humans and this object, and following enslavement of the former by the latter. Note to self: joke funny, but unfit for publication. Delete before disseminating]

Cortical Circuitry By Sergey Alexashenko

While that word has a lot of meanings in the human world, this book will be largely talking about immediate animal goals – hunger, cold, fear, etc. Interestingly enough, all but one of the different goals that humans have come from emotions and, thus, from subcortical structures. The only goal that is native to the cortex is curiosity.

is that so? isn't it a sub-goal of those immediate animal goals?

When we build true artificial intelligence (AI, or AGI as people like to call it today), curiosity will be its only inevitable motivation.

is that so?

Chapters 5 & 6 are kinda useless. And the rest - too.