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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Inquiring Minds

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The Impossible Input Is How We Build Our Model

What we perceive is the model in our head. We think we're perceiving the world as it is, but that's not really true. Our imputs are right impoverishedyou know, you point tho eyes, yes, a highly distorted image that's projected to the brain. It's full of all kinds of holes and things tatare missing blood vessels and so on. Yet the world seems rich and stable. That's because etru isn't i know, the sounds weird, but it's true. And i'm not the only person have come to this conclusion.

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