169. Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

<p>Michael Shermer speaks with Jeff Hawkins, cofounder of Numenta: a neuroscience research company, about his new book <em>A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence</em> in which Hawkins explains how simple cells in the brain create intelligence by using maplike structures to build hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. Listen to this in-depth dialogue about the discoveries that allow Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.</p>