I'm no expert but Jeff Hawkins' theories seem a bit dated to me. The concept described in this article is the same one in his book "On Intelligence", which was

I'm no expert but Jeff Hawkins' theories seem a bit dated to me. The concept described in this article is the same one in his book "On Intelligence", which was written long ago. Before we knew the impact of neural network arrangement and architecture on its performance. Examples like that paper that described a task-specific region of the brain that handles face recognition is not supported by his model.