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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Inquiring Minds

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How to Measure Intelligence in the Human Brain

Scientists have been studying intelligence for many decades, and some would argue that we've come a kind of understanding. My field is really understanding how theou cortex works, which is the organ of intelligence. But people who study intelligence andin a more abstract quantity really just ignored the details of the brain. I'm veryim a sort of reductionist n many ways. And if i do that, i shall be able to build machines at work on the same principles as our brains. We should be to recreate it. You don't really understand something until you could re create it.

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