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The unit of processing in the neocortex is the cortical column. Each column is a complete sensory-motor system—that is, it gets inputs and it can generate behaviors. With every movement, a column predicts what its next input will be. Prediction is how a column tests and updates its model.

A Thousand Brains_ A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins

The so-called instinct of causality is nothing more than the fear of the unfamiliar, and the attempt at finding something in it which is already known.—It is not a search for causes, but for the familiar.

The Will to Power

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Do set the rules of the game and play the game better if you’re winning. Change the rules of the game if you’re not.

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

Lafley, A.G.

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