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I read Hawkins's "On Intelligence" a few years ago and enjoyed it. For anyone here who's read both that and "New Theory of Intelligence", what's the relation be
by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I read Hawkins's "On Intelligence" a few years ago and enjoyed it. For anyone here who's read both that and "New Theory of Intelligence", what's the relation between the two?
- briga 5y agoBasically it’s his updated thoughts along with some new research his company has done on cortical columns being the basis for human intelligence. It’s a good read but perhaps a bit over-ambitious in trying to propose a unified theory of cognition.
- Minor49er 5y agoI also read "On Intelligence", though quite some time ago. It was much better than the various Ray Kurzweil books that I had read around the same time. "A New Theory of Intelligence" is on my reading list. If you're interested in the biological aspects of the human brain, I would suggest "I Am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter, which explores a concept of where consciousness comes from, or "The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks.