Is There a Cortical Column?

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i'm invisioning an evolutionary model or explanation for this. We know genes can code for body segments, segmental body parts that just get repeated over and over. But bya ly simple genetic algarithm, so your cortical columns that you're a your model incorporates as important a hundred and 50 thousand of them,. whatever the number is. And there's a natural, there's, say, natural selection age to have more cortical columns, something like that. The anatomy in physiology of the new equiptic suggests this is true.

Michael Shermer speaks with Jeff Hawkins, cofounder of Numenta: a neuroscience research company, about his new book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence in which Hawkins explains how simple cells in the brain create intelligence by using maplike structures to build hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. Listen to this in-depth dialogue about the discoveries that allow Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.