I'm reading Rodolfo Llinás's I of the Vortex. Fascinating, challenging book. But now that I have HTMs as my context, I can't help shouting in my head that "yeah, this is exactly what is explained by HTMs!"

To put it simply, Llinás says that brain is an organ that transforms information from the external world into goal-directed movements. (And therefore thinking is just internalized movement.) He talks how brain has to find "universals" from the nature and transform them into an internal (neuron-based) representation. Which is just what HTMs are all about. Whether HTMs are the right model is another discussion.

I'll dig for quotes from the book later.