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169. Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

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Is There a Cortical Column?

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.

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