A thousand brains : a new theory of intelligence / Jeff Hawkins ; with a foreword by Richard Dawkins.

By:

Hawkins, Jeff, 1957- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, 2021Description: xiii, 272 pages : 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781541675810

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

612.82 HAW 23

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	612.82 HAW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100603787

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.

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.

One of the Financial Times ' Best Books of 2021

One of Bill Gates' Five Favorite Books of 2021

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jeff Hawkins is the cofounder of Numenta, a neuroscience research company; founder of the Redwood Neuroscience Institute; and one of the founders of the field of handheld computing. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and author of On Intelligence .