I walk through some ofthe requirements it requires to build what i would call an intelligent machine. And n most f those intelligent machines would be conscious, if they are able to,. even if they're small. I think a consciousness is can occurat a lot in yu. Rats are conscious a. You don't need to have a huge amount of it. It's more like we have the right set of ingredients. And if we have a certain set of ingredients, than that thing will be conscious. Not like a human necessarily, but it will be aware of its presence in the world. We now can make usic computer in my coffee pot and to turn int a universal toring
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.