Hawkins — “Knowledge in the brain is distributed. Nothing we…”

Source: A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence — Jeff Hawkins

Book page: hawkins-a-thousand-brains

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

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Knowledge in the brain is distributed. Nothing we know is stored in one place, such as one cell or one column. Nor is anything stored everywhere, like in a hologram. Knowledge of something is distributed in thousands of columns, but these are a small subset of all the columns.