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#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Lex Fridman Podcast
The World Is Hierarchical
The world itself is hierarchical, right? And I can take this microphone from me and know inside there's going to be some electronics. So anyway, the modeling system that exists in every cortical column learns the hierarchical structure of objects. The same mechanism that can model a water bottle or coffee cup can model conceptual objects as well. That's the beauty of this discovery that this Vernon Mountain Castle made many, many years ago.
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