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#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is the Brain a Marvel of Engineering or a Dumb Thing?

All computers are universal turning machines, even the little teeny one that's in my toaster and the big one that's running some cloud servers in place. So common sense concepts and higher level concepts are all represented in the same way. They're separate in the same mechanisms. It can be applied to something as simple as a water bottle in a coffee cup or thinking like what's the future of humanity? I don't know. Nobody knows.

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