About the Book : A Thousand Brains (PB): A New Theory of Intelligence
For all of neurosciences advances, weve made little progress on its biggest
question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?
Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to
build a model of the world—not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of
models of everything we know. This discovery allows 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.
A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of