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Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Neor Cortex Is a Neural Mechanic, and It's Not Like That

Every small part of the neor cortex ay a millimeter square, and there's a hundred and 50 thousand of those. Each square millimeter can learn complete models of objects. The brain works by assigning everything, every input, everything, to reference frames. And there are thousands, hundreds and thousands of em active at once in your neor cortex. That's why we call the thousand brains theory of intelligence. Because there isn't one model of te cup. There are thousands of models about cameras and microphones - it's a distributed modelling system.

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