How Do Bacterias Models Work?

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If you're going to behave in the world and act in some way that's supposed o just randomly bouncing around. For most of evolution, that model was cut hard wire. What's unique about a more intelligent animals is that our model is very generic. It it can learn almost anything. And so it's thiss it tis an what happened in the near cortex. All mammals have it, and theyre some ispredecessors to it. In other animals,. I but is this general purpose mechanism.

Michael Shermer speaks with Jeff Hawkins, cofounder of Numenta: a neuroscience research company, about his new book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence in which Hawkins explains how simple cells in the brain create intelligence by using maplike structures to build hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. Listen to this in-depth dialogue about the discoveries that allow Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.