Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-08-08
Lex Fridman & Jeff Hawkins: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #208
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins is a neuroscientist and cofounder of Numenta, a neuroscience research company.
Lex Fridman discussed A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins and The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Thousand Brains
Discussed“and recently a new book called a thousand brains which presents a new theory of intelligence that richard dawkins for example has been raving about calling the book quote brilliant and exhilarating”
Where to get it
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The Origin of Species
Discussed“so darwin wrote about the origin of species so what is the origin of intelligence”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing On Intelligence
“he previously wrote the seminal book on the subject titled on intelligence and recently a new book called a thousand brains”
Plugged Rain
“and i write about this in the book about and then we ask how do neurons actually make predictions physically”
Plugged Nation of Victims
“In the third part of my book i talked about all these scenarios and let me just walk through them”