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#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the Neocortex Fundamental to Human Intelligence?
Jeffrey Toobin: Our goal is to understand how the neocortex works. We know that all high level planning and thinking occurs in the neocortex, he says. So can you understand the neocortex without understanding the emotions of fear? Yes, said Toobin. It's just a modeling system. How our map of our world in our neocortex depends on the rest of our brain,. And so we manifest as a human based on what are our motivations? What are our desires? Are I a nice guy or not a nice guy? Am I a cheater or am I, you know, not a cheater? You know, how important different things are in my life? He
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