All I did was ask -- ASK -- whether if Numenta actually works.

So does it work? Better than what we have? Is it really novel?

ps: You're failing to make a prime distinction about argument from authority and falacious argument from authority. You can safely argue from authority by someone if is a genuine expert and a consensus of experts all are saying the same thing. An expert would be if most of what an authority says on a topic is often virtually all the time, then you could be OK with that person being an expert. The Southern Baptist can argue from authority about biblical interpretations given that they should know Greek/Hebrew/Latin, ancient mediterranean history, etc. They can't argue from authority about evolutionary biology if they don't know anything about it.

The reason I posted here is because I don't talk to my ML/AI friends often, I don't have many of them, and they haven't explained why they think what they do.

I don't understand why it is taking so much effort to get a simple amount of proof. Surely, there's a corpus of data with performance metrics that exists and can conclusively demonstrate one way or another?