I just finished listening to the audio book format of On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins: http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/0805078533/ http://ww

I just finished listening to the audio book format of On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins: http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/0805078533/ http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507853... (Hopefully I get this right... was pretty sleep deprived while listening to it.) In the book he describes the core part of intelligence as prediction - our brain is constantly making predictions from sensory inputs. While our brains do take in huge amounts of data, Hawkins' theory suggests that it is being operated on in massive parallelism - with different predictions happening simultaneously. Thus it isn't so much that all that data is being thrown away, as it is all being checked against known patterns from previous memories. He lays out reasoning for how intelligence, creativity, etc. are formed on top of this prediction model. It is a very interesting read.