Intelligence is about learning a model the world, and i don't think there's many ways you can do that. There'ud have to be the equivalent of whatever thei columns would be in order to build an intelligence capable of building ito. And so what we've discovered is that the human brain, all mammals, and some sense, theorprotic, is this sort of universal modelling ai. It may bely a shortcoming in my imagination, but i can't imagine there's another way of doing it. I could be shortcoming to my imagi tin fot the moment, it's such a powerful idea. Won't you understand it deeply?
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.