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

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Is There a Conscious Mind?

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

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