Bacteria are the most successful beings in the world. Most animals don't have big brains. We're born premature, and so it takes us another 15, 20 years to finish growing. There's a huge penalty thatnd, and human in the beginning, awe, not that successful species. And now all of a suddn we're the first species that knows what's going on. It doesn't mean we have to be smarter. We can be stupid and serve the gens. It doesn't matter. I forget to ask you about that earlier. If intelligence is so great, and evolution is selecting four of these a multiple a neral columns andd iand if a thousand
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.