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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What Is the Origin of Intelligence?

Theory of intelligence is based on a theory that as soon as living things started to move, there was an advantage to moving intelligently. So we still have this neural mechanism in our brains - it's in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. These are older parts of the brain. We build a map of the of our environment. And almost any animal that knows where it is and get around must have some mapping system.

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