The Concept of Information Models

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Most of what's going on in your brain is like processing all these imputs. It's figuring out where it is relative to the cup. If i move my finger, i'll know what location i'll be at next. Even a single column can learn the physical structure of something. And so you sand sere, while i can't know what it is by just touching, that's true. But if you move your finger, you can learn what it is and you can infer what it is or recognize it moving her finger.

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.