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I was very pleasantly surprised to find that this is a book about how the neocortex functions and even touches on consciousness (a bit). I've read a bit of this material in other books, but the core of the book (the ideas that intelligence is pattern-based prediction and that the cortex is an auto-associative pattern machine) was new to me. I also loved the speculative last chapter. Unlike other reviewers of this book, I found Hawkins to be curious and enthusiastic, not condescending. And I love
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Jeff Hawkins, whose tech accomplishments include inventing the Palm Pilot, saw the computer industry as a means of pursuing his real passion: the brain. On Intelligence is a marvelously cogent presentation of Hawkins's intriguing "memory prediction framework" hypothesis, developed based on what is known about the functions and functioning of the neocortex.
"The ability to make predictions is the crux of intelligence."
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"The ability to make predictions is the crux of intelligence."
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A very valuable source for understanding intelligence and how the brain works, but got a bit too technical in between, considering the fact that I was listening to it as an audiobook.
Very insightful
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