You Know, You're Going to That Town

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I used to have dejavous experiences when i was riding across america and race across America. I'd get a flash like, i've been here before. But in a way, there's only so many variations on these towns. They all have a dannies and a dairy queen,. There's a and there's a corn silo in the midwest, and so on. And i thought, it's like i have a model of a town, and it resembles it like a double take with somebody. You think you know and you go, i think i know you do i know you andand.

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.