Dave's reading notes

Home

❯

clippings

❯

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence — Quotes

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence — Quotes

Properties1
tagssource-material, clipping

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence — Quotes

Imported from: Clippings/Hawkins-A-Thousand-Brains.md

Notes built from this: hawkins-a-thousand-brains, technology-and-humans

Author: Jeff Hawkins Source: Goodreads

19 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Book page: hawkins-a-thousand-brains

  • “It is human nature - aka old brain…”
  • “There are two ways to think about ourselves…”
  • “At some point in the future, we will…”
  • “We are intelligent not because we can do…”
  • “Through the sensory nerves. The nerves only send…”
  • “The point is that anything capable of self-replication…”
  • “In the battle between the old brain and…”
  • “The difficult part of knowledge is not stating…”
  • “The list of things everyone should know is…”
  • “Life is not about having a correct model…”
  • “A future driven by genes has little to…”
  • “Our neocortex has invented powerful technologies that are…”
  • “We learn by moving. In order to learn…”
  • “Although we can’t know the details of the…”
  • “Knowledge in the brain is distributed. Nothing we…”
  • “To predict the next note, you can’t just…”
  • “There are neurons in the old part of…”
  • “Our reality is similar to the brain-in-a-vat hypothesis…”
  • “Uploading your brain entails recording all the details…”

Graph View

  • A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence — Quotes
  • A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Backlinks

  • hawkins-a-thousand-brains
  • Hawkins — “It is human nature - aka old brain…”
  • Hawkins — “There are two ways to think about ourselves…”
  • Hawkins — “At some point in the future, we will…”
  • Hawkins — “We are intelligent not because we can do…”
  • Hawkins — “Through the sensory nerves. The nerves only send…”
  • Hawkins — “The point is that anything capable of self-replication…”
  • Hawkins — “In the battle between the old brain and…”
  • Hawkins — “The difficult part of knowledge is not stating…”
  • Hawkins — “The list of things everyone should know is…”
  • Hawkins — “Life is not about having a correct model…”
  • Hawkins — “A future driven by genes has little to…”
  • Hawkins — “Our neocortex has invented powerful technologies that are…”
  • Hawkins — “We learn by moving. In order to learn…”
  • Hawkins — “Although we can’t know the details of the…”
  • Hawkins — “Knowledge in the brain is distributed. Nothing we…”
  • Hawkins — “To predict the next note, you can’t just…”
  • Hawkins — “There are neurons in the old part of…”
  • Hawkins — “Our reality is similar to the brain-in-a-vat hypothesis…”
  • Hawkins — “Uploading your brain entails recording all the details…”
  • technology-and-humans

Created with Quartz v5.0.0 © 2026

  • Grill English