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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Embrace the Power of Collective Intelligence

The Thousand Brains Theory illustrates that the neocortex functions with numerous independent modeling systems, rather than a singular model of the world. Each of the approximately 150,000 columns in the cortex serves as a complete modeling system, emphasizing the concept of collective intelligence within the brain. This insight reveals the richness of cognitive processing and suggests that our understanding of learning and intelligence is more complex and distributed than previously thought.

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