Actually, this may be very good news for Kurzweil. In his last book "How to Create a Mind", he lays out a theory centered around a "pattern-recognizer" unit that is repeated throughout the columns and regions of the neocortex. In his book, he assumed it to be made up of several neurons wired in a specific manner, but if each neuron can do some hierarchical processing of its own then the pattern-recognizer might be reducible to a single neuron.
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