Is My Mother Still There?

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There's a sense that there's a jeff hawkins that really exists, not just physically in your skin and skull, but also chronologically over the last several decades. Most of the time we're thinking about our previous thoughts. We actually don't perceive the world directly. All our perceptions are he fabrications of the brain.

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.