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A Thousand Brains

A New Theory of Intelligence

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A Thousand Brains

By: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword
Narrated by: Jamie Renell, Richard Dawkins
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A "fascinating book" that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI (Financial Times)

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've 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 intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.

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©2021 Jeff Hawkins (P)2021 Basic Books Biological Sciences Computer Science Machine Theory & Artificial Intelligence Science Human Brain Technology Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing
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The theory presented in the first section of A Thousand Brains is the most intriguing idea about intelligence that I've come across. Hawkins doesn't dumb anything down, but still manages to pain a concise and clear picture of his insights such that anyone (with a little effort) can understand.

The ideas presented in the latter sections are fantastic in scope and exhilerating to think about! His urging in the final chapter to study and teach about the brain feels sorely needed, and I only hope that society at large embraces this point of view.

Highly recommend if you're at all interested in the subject matter.

Immensely exciting

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Loved the journey through complexity to application. Not for pretenders. A book for innovators.

Insightful. A read recommended for true thinkers.

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I really enjoyed the content of the book and how it enriches the ability of one to better understand the brain even if you are not an specialist. Just the last few chapters got a bit off track but overall an amazing book

Fascinating book

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Loved it all however I would encourage Jeff to please read Ian Plimer's (most renowned Australian geologist) book about climate change titled, Heaven and Earth, Climate Change the missing science. It's $14.49 on Kindle. Please educate yourself. Please. Sincerely, Nic Even feel free to call me, +61414791673 Main point is that humans are not significant enough to effect climate change. Local pollution yes, climate change, no.

The basic understanding of old brain and new brain functions.

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The first half was what I loved about this book. Super interesting, easy to follow and intriguing. I wish the book continued with the same content as the first half.
More details about how knowledge is learnt and retrieved in the brain.

The way the content changes midway felt like an openend movie, what happened at the end of the first one?!
The second half could easily be a different book like a sequel.

First half GREAT, second half so so

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found it easy to stay engaged and consume the concepts. I had very basic understanding understanding of the brain before reading. At one point he zooms out on the time scale and it gets very full on.

awesome book

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Very interesting idea, pity about the woke gibberish at the end. Just stick to the first chapters

Started well, ended terrible

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Most of the book was interesting, however the last few chapters of the book were a bit off-track compared to the rest of the book. Worth listening to, however the last few chapters could be skipped.

Last part of the book was a bit off-track

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nothing much new here. a rehash of things already out there. not worth $$

too much hyped

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