Does your brain have one model of the world or thousands?

Why do you see a unified image when you open your eyes, even though each part of your visual cortex has access to only a small part of the world?
What is special about the wrinkled outer layer of the brain, and what does that have to do with the way that you explore and come to understand the world? Are there new theories of how the brain operates? And in what ways is it doing something very different than current AI? Join Eagleman with guest Jeff Hawkins, theoretician and author of “A Thousand Brains” to dive into Hawkins’ theory of many models running in the brain at once.

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More Information:

Hawkins J. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence. Basic Books. 2022.

Hawkins J. On Intelligence. St. Martin’s Griffin. 2005.

Eagleman DM. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain. New York: Pantheon. 2020.

Mountcastle VB. An organizing principle for cerebral function: the unit module and the distributed system. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines. MIT Press. 1979.

See numenta.com for information about 1000 brains project

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