Jeff Hawkins on intelligence

ON INTELLIGENCE by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee; Times Books. With its chatty style and cross-references to computer technology, this is far and away the best of the books about the human brain and how it works.   The book also explains his theories on the human brain's ability to make accurate predictions about the world.  Hawkins was the founder of Palm and Handspring but his real interest has always been neuroscience. So, in 2002, he founded Redwood Neuroscience Institute to pursue his own theories of intelligence and consciousness.

The Redwood Neuroscience Institute (RNI) is a nonprofit research organization studying and promoting biologically accurate mathematical models of memory and cognition. Stated very simply, we are working on theories of how the human brain works.  A major goal of RNI is to encourage people to enter and pursue this field of research. So in addition to our in-house science, RNI continually seeks ways of influencing a larger community.