"I am far from being an expert at neuroscienceI've drawn terminology from Jeff Hawkins' book On Intelligence. But what makes a neuroscientist qualified besides his understanding of how the mind works? Everyone, including you, has intimate access to a mind if they train themselves to be aware of it.They were both guilty of learning from experience.But how did they learn? What does it mean to learn? This is exactly my point. They each remembered their past observations/experiences, abstracted away the insignificant details (like the time of day, the weather at the time, which direction the animal was coming from), and hypothesized (or predicted) a way of escaping. The first man abstracted away the type of animal and predicted that climbing a tree would save him. Since some animals can climb trees and others can't (an important point in this case), his prediction failed. The second man, after seeing this, abstracted away many of the same unimportant things (like the time of day and the..." - Jonathan Tran
