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Yes, exactly. That's the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) theory about the Neocortex.

According to him, "consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex". I.e. it's a global property.

Some more here: http://vinodwadhawan.blogspot.de/2014/03/122-hawkins-model-f...




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