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169. Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Generic Generic Cell?

We've lived this model of a nuron that goes back o probably now 80 years or something like that. There's a cell in there somewhere that only fires when they see a picture of your grandmother, i think christov co called it the genifer aniston cell. And so what you canso we call this repre representational capacity. It can represent gazilian things, because you're just picking a random set of small, sparse number cells.

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