I bought this as an audiobook on iTunes for a car trip or something, back in ~2006. It made a huge impact because its theories are so simple and easy to underst

I bought this as an audiobook on iTunes for a car trip or something, back in ~2006. It made a huge impact because its theories are so simple and easy to understand that, if you are even a novice programmer, you can probably imagine how you'd go about implementing such a brain. Especially if you find the original white papers and read them too, as they practically include the source code if I recall (I've got them printed and bound on a shelf somewhere). While I was in grad school, I spent several weekends tinkering with my own implementation of a very simple HTM to process shapes in Go (the game). It never did much in the way of playing Go, and I stopped messing with it after something else more practical got in the way, but I'd love to dust off that code and now seems like a great time to get back into it. The narration on the audiobook is very high quality, and, for me at least, the ideas were quite accessible through audio. I highly recommend it if you're the type of person who might purchase such a book in paper and never get around to reading it (but you have time to kill in the car).