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#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

In your new book you talk about our brain as being made up of many brains. So the Thousand Brains Theory says, well, where do I have knowledge about this coffee cup or where is the model of this cell phone? It's in thousands of separate models that are complementary and they communicate with each other through voting. And that's a total different way of thinking about how the neocortex is structured than we or anyone else thought of even just five years ago.

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