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Understanding the Thousand Brains Theory
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The Thousand Brains Theory suggests that the brain's neocortex learns about the world by creating different models, including visual and auditory models, and employing voting neurons to identify common features of these different models.

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The Thousand Brains Theory suggests that the brain has multiple models of the world and about 150,000 of them in each human brain.
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Neuroscience
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The Thousand Brains Theory suggests that the brain has multiple models of the world and about 150,000 of them in each human brain. These stacks of 'little brains' called columns, help in forming models of different senses such as vision, audio, and touch.

Chapter
Understanding the Thousand Brains Theory
Episode
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
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Lex Fridman Podcast
The brain uses voting neurons to reach a consensus on what object we are perceiving, despite the fact that different parts of the object are being viewed by different parts of the brain.
19:47 - 20:56 (01:08)
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Brain Science
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The brain uses voting neurons to reach a consensus on what object we are perceiving, despite the fact that different parts of the object are being viewed by different parts of the brain.

Chapter
Understanding the Thousand Brains Theory
Episode
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast