In his view, the brain is not a Turing machine that manipulates symbols according to a table of rules, which is the model on which computers and artificial intelligence have been based. Instead, the brain is a giant hierarchical memory that is constantly recording what it perceives and predicting what will come next.
En su opinión, el cerebro no es una máquina de Turingque manipula símbolos conforme a una tabla de reglas, como lo hacen las computadoras o la inteligencia artificial, sino que es una gigantesca memoria jerárquica que está registrando permanentemente lo que percibe y prediciendo lo que vendrá a continuación.