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Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

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Why Do We Fear Death?

Ats humans fear death for two reasons. One is because we are programm genetically to fear death, that say, that's a survival and peginning f the games thing. We all sow a programme to feel sad when people we know die. The denial of death by becker e - our whole conception of our world model kind of assumes immortality,. So like, well, some people's world model, not mine. But dokeso, what what becka would say is that you're just living in an illusion. You've constructed n illusion for yourself because it's such a terrible terror. Ats humans don't need to solve that problem to build intelligent machines at all.

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