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

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Hel in the Book, but Not in One Spot

A good part of your new quartex is dedicated to modelling your own body. So that's one thing we have that gives us our sense of where my physical presence is in the world, where am i sitting right now? Where is my limbs? How my relationship to thi space? That's one component of what you aske about. There's another component, which is more a sort of the sense of awareness, or how do i know that i exist? You know, i feel this is a lot of conscious you want to call it consciousness. Um, and i have a chapter on consciousness that relates to machines, but its rilld about consciousness and brains. Brain states are

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