Jeff Hawkins: How Our Brains Understand/Misunderstand The World

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How Your Brain Understands the World and Why It Sometimes Gets It Wrong

Everything we think we understand—our perceptions, thoughts, and experiences—is based on the model of the world created by our brains. And sometimes our brains can be fooled, building models based on things that aren’t true. Why?

Thursday, April 15, at 7 p.m. ET, on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, groundbreaking scientist and technology entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins will discuss his team’s cutting edge research into the workings of the human brain, the neuroscience behind false beliefs, and what we might be able to do about it.

Jeff Hawkins is considered one of the most successful and highly regarded computer architects in Silicon Valley. He is widely known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring, Inc., and as the architect of many successful handheld computers. He is often credited with starting the entire handheld computing industry.

Despite his successes as a technology entrepreneur, Hawkins’s primary passion and occupation has been neuroscience. From 2002 to 2005, Hawkins directed the Redwood Neuroscience Institute, now located at U.C. Berkeley. He is currently co-founder and chief scientist at Numenta, a research company focused on neocortical theory.

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