Hawkins — “There are neurons in the old part of…”

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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There are neurons in the old part of our brain that are known to learn maps of the places we have visited, and these neurons have been under evolutionary pressure for so long that they are fine-tuned to do what they do. In mammals, the old brain parts where these map-creating neurons exist are called the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex.