📚 Finished reading: A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins, having no idea how it ended up in my Kindle library. I am glad to have opened it, as I now have some semblance of a framework for how this thing we call intelligence might work. Note that the newest developments in neuroscience are just a starting point, as most of the book deals with their implications for AI and the future of humanity. If that sounds like overreach, know that by the end of the book it is. Still, these wafer-thin speculations don’t detract from the book’s meatier parts.

Confirmation bias alert: the framework repeats almost word for word the thought I had a while back — and more recently — about AI, that true general intelligence needs to be able to interact with its environment. So I may be blind to some obvious deficiencies in the argument. But then again, great minds, etc.