I'm Imagining Your Sanctuary Book, Scaling Up

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i don't believe in freewill in the sense of ao Believe in a soul or a mind independent of the brain. A it's not something to size and tn, but here's what does go on. Tet's tak a very simple example. In my armory tracks that happens in the spinal cord. It doesn't wait for anything else. Retract your arm. Now, the cortax observes us a little bit later, right? The cortex gets the pan signal, but after the fact, and it also observes the reaction. So then the cortex isn't, well, i guess i did that, so i must have decided to do that, right? No

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.