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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Inquiring Minds

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How Are Predictive Models Made in the Cortex?

i really like in your book how you have you kind of couched this, this information gathering through these aha moments. I think that's really helpful to bring people into your way of thinking. So let's tell us about those three aha moments and what they mean. The first one i talk about is the idea that the cortex is building a model of the world as se o bing, like a computer. Many years ago, at when i was at berkeley, i had that realization. And other people have had it too. It's not so unique, although many people don't, don't realize it. But that was the first one. We were trying to understand

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