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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Inquiring Minds

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Neo Alk

Cognitive psychologists have struggled to really define and understand intelligence. The brain actually has a model of all these things in your head. Intelligence is all about this model building. When you have a model of the world, then you can act. And we n do this planning because we have a huge knowledge of how the world behaves. I think that's one of the real missing links. So ttellus,. yes, tell us about the neo alk soyou know, just physically, what is it? It's, You know, it's, it'sAbout 70 % of the volume of a human brain. If you were to cut it away from the rest of the brain, it's

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