Odds of life existing in arcalxis pretty bus ido, i think i like that. Every star has half a dozen to a dozen planets and so if you just get one earth size at the right goldi locks distance then there's something else out there. And no annn about intelligence though, is that? Well, onlyloothe lot of intelligent species on the planet be let's talk about the ones like us who can know about the stars and know about communication and know about the stuffs. We have been sort of a technologically advanced species for a very short period of time. The virus is a catillo of humanity. These old things could happen. So,
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.