You Want to Continue Yourself, Your Point of View Self

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The idea is that each of thems thinks they're looking out of their eyes as you. We are so far from doing this is it's not going to happen at any time soon. But it is something that i think people just having really thought through the issues completely at im and when they do ar, perhaps they'll have a different change of mind about it. I don't know what ll ever happend, it's so complicated, so difficult to match you doing this that er, it's its.

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.