The thousand brains - a new theory of intelligence

In the book "A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of the Brain" Hawkins adopts a new and radical approach to the brain, and this approach has significant implications. The idea Hawkins calls the Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence states: that the brain is organized into thousands and thousands of individual computing units, called cortical columns. All these columns process information from the external world in the same way, and each builds a complete model of the world. But since each column has different connections to the rest of the body, each has a unique frame of reference. The brain issues all these models through voting. Therefore, the basic function of the brain is not to build a single idea, but to manage thousands of individual ideas at every moment. With this new powerful framework, Hawkins can reevaluate some of the most difficult problems in neuroscience, such as why pain should be useful, how we can understand that our perspective on something changes as we move around it, and why we can do that. The human is conscious, but the individual parts of our bodies are not. Author: Jeff Hawkins Number of pages: 303