1000 brains. New theory of intelligence. Hawkins J.

Despite all the achievements of neurobiology, we have little advanced in solving its main issue: what is the biological nature of intelligence?

The author offers an answer built on a sensational scientific discovery. In the book, he talks about why the neurons of the cerebral cortex united into strange communities called "cortical columns". There are one hundred and fifty thousand in the neocortex. Jeff Hawkins and his team found that each column that makes up the cerebral cortex creates its own model of the world. As a result, not one model is formed, but thousands, and our perception is a collective decision of the cortical columns, which they adopted by voting.

The authors of the idea called the theory of “thousands of brains” a new look at the activity of the brain. They argue that not artificial neural networks, but by them the laws of the neocortex work will form the basis for the development of artificial intelligence in the future.