Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone BS 183 Jeff Hawkins shares his new theory of Intelligence
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Apr 23, 2021 AI Snips
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Funding Challenges in Neuroscience
- Jeff Hawkins initially faced difficulty securing funding for theoretical neuroscience research.
- He returned to the tech industry to gain financial independence, enabling him to pursue his research.
Thousand Brains Theory
- Jeff Hawkins' new theory focuses on cortical columns, the primary functional unit of the cortex.
- Each column builds its own model of the world, leading to a "thousand brains" theory.
Reference Frames
- The hippocampus creates maps relative to the animal, while cortical columns create maps relative to objects.
- This allows for understanding objects independent of our position, like recognizing a room from different angles.