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

The Michael Shermer Show

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I'm Imagining Your Sanctuary Book, Scaling Up

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

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