A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Paperback) – Jeff Hawkins

Publisher : Basic Books (18 March 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1541675819
Item Weight : 480 g
Dimensions : 17.02 x 3.18 x 24.77 cm

ion from the outside world in the same way, and each builds a complete model of the world. But because every column has different connections to the rest of the body, each has a unique frame of reference. Your brain sorts out all those models by conducting a vote. The fundamental job of the brain, therefore, is not to build a single thought, but to manage the thousands of individual thoughts it has every moment. With this powerful new framework, Hawkins is able to reassess some of neuroscience’s most stubborn problems, like why pain needs to be painful to be useful, how we can understand that our perspective of a thing changes as we move around it, and why we might be conscious but individual pieces of our body aren’t. And once you understand how th