alt Hacker News> If your model is correct, it needs to account for those facts.
Let me make it simple for you.
We have a finite number of neurons in our brain, as do birds, and our brain is attempting to store an ever growing number of memories in those. And, no, this is not a digital computer (is your reading comprehension really so bad?).
Nobody, including you, knows exactly where different types of memory are stored, and for my argument it makes no difference. What does make a difference is how they are represented, which I am suggesting is sparse embeddings.
So far, you've been ignoring my actual argument and instead responding to various strawmen of your own making, so it's not clear if you even understand what a sparse embedding is.
If you do understand, then it should be obvious that it makes no difference whether the neurons comprising this embedding space are in the hippocampus, cortex/pallium or anywhere else. Clearly you do NOT understand, since you bring up bird brains (pallium vs cortex) and want to argue about location of storage (hippocampus vs elsewhere) as if it made a difference to MY argument.
My argument (if you care to respond to it, which so far you have not) is that when sparse embeddings have little to no overlap, then associative recall by a similar pattern will work reliably, but when multiple embeddings have too much in common then recall will suffer as multiple embeddings will match.
Hint: if you think this has anything to do with digital computers then you have misunderstood and need to go back and re-read more carefully, or google for any terms you do not understand.
Sliding past the mistakes pointed out, shifting goalposts and trying to recover I see.
Let’s say I’m a complete moron and don’t know what a sparse embedding is.
Pretty please, can you define it for me and then tell me, in detail, where in whatever region of the brain you think this is going on… how is it going on?
Explain how “memories must be stored as embeddings with single multi-neuron assemblies (cortical columns?) storing multiple embeddings as a kind of contents-addressable memory”
You have moved past the cortical column. But still seem to be insisting it’s a bunch of neurons, somewhere… or has that also conveniently changed? Whatever your current position is, please go ahead and explain what components of what cells or otherwise are involved in this process you’re describing.