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
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.