I haven't read his book, but his ideas are interesting. A little taste from TED: [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/125 http://www.ted.com/index.php/t

I haven't read his book, but his ideas are interesting. A little taste from TED: [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/125 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/125] Also a fascinating and much more technical talk Hawkins gave at IBM's Conference on Cognitive Computing, watch till the end for the grilling he gets from established Neuroscientists and Computing people: [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2500845581503718756 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2500845581503718756]