Hacking the brain by predicting the future and inverting...

Google TechTalks January 27, 2006 William Softky http://www.softky.com/Bill/resume.html The brain seems to carry out nearly all its sensory perception using generic, interchangeable modules, each of which learns (from scratch) to represent and process whatever signals it is exposed to. But what does each module actually do? What is the "API" between modules such that they can all learn and work in harmony?