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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Inquiring Minds

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How Did You Find Your Way Into a Science Career?

Jeff hawkins: How we experience the world, how we think, is by developing mental models of things. He started out as an engineer to then think about how our knowledge of how the neo cortex works might be utilized to create even more intelligent artificial intelligence. "I fell in love with the idea of studying the brain after i graduated from college," he says.

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