If we destroy earth, those things will still be there a billion years from now. We could put structures at orbit the sun that are large enough that they block a bit of the sunlight. People could detect them from far away and say: "There was someone to live there once" It's possiblereupr there's the signal that. There's our intelligence signal. Tha, they were intelligent, but not intelligent not wise enough. Wouldn't last long time.
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.