I don't think there was much new in it, but (intentionally or not) it was a pretty good layman's introduction to the preceding decade or so of thought about pre

I don't think there was much new in it, but (intentionally or not) it was a pretty good layman's introduction to the preceding decade or so of thought about predictive behavior in neural systems. Of course, Hawkins tended to imply that it was all his own ideas, but if you ignore that it's a pretty good overview.