Jeff Hawkins has some pretty heterodox theories of intelligence, many of which are not backed up by modern neuroscience. Furthermore, as neuroscience advances,

Jeff Hawkins has some pretty heterodox theories of intelligence, many of which are not backed up by modern neuroscience. Furthermore, as neuroscience advances, the similarities between so-called artificial neural networks and actual neurons are rapidly receding. Much of the current success of convolutional neural networks is (loosely) inspired by a particular part of the anatomy of the eye, but non-visual processing and abstract reasoning seems to take place under much more complicated patterns that ANNs may not be able to replicate as easily.