On Intelligence, Part I

Want a users guide to your brain? You have to get On Intelligence (paper, audio) by Jeff Hawkins. Yes, the Jeff Hawkins of Palm fame. Jeff is pretty impressed with himself, but given Palm, Graffiti and now On Intelligence, maybe he should be. Jeff says he made all that money just to fund his real hobby of figuring out the brain. Maybe he did. Anyway, On Intelligence is Jeff's theory of how the brain works. Not just how it acts, but how it really works. Which tells you how it (and you) will act. And once you read it, you won't see the world the same way again. You won't trust your senses or your memory the same way. You won't teach your children or expose them to things in the same way. It's one of those books that becomes a filter for everything you experience and comparison for new content on the subject you come across. Yes, really. If you find his theory to be hogwash, well, then it won't be like that for you. But if you value understanding your own thinking, you're going to get a ton from the book. Why, it just makes sense and fits (that is, predicts) everyday experience. There might be other ways the brain could work that could also predict human action and thought patterns this well, so the specifics might not be right. But if his theory predicts as much as it does, what else can it tell you? Get it. (By the way, I'm not going to be able to avoid mentioning it in the future, so it would be better if you read or listened to it yourself. ;-)