Reading Jeff Hawkins "On Intelligence" served as an introduction to Daniel Dennett's "Consciousness Explained". More accessible to the layman and full of revealing details on the internals of human intelligence (I mean, any neocortex possessing creature...). Repetitive at times, but I believe that is so ignorants on the subject (like myself) get to understand the concepts presented.
The book reinforces the idea that consciousness is no more than a natural phenomenon, and bases on the principle that awareness of your environment and self awareness is built on the neocortex capacity to recall memories.
One more stone on the mausoleum of religion, pseudo-science and mysticism, specially after his explanation on how the neocortex creates a world model used as the basis for prediction of the environment.
I hope I will still be alive when his an similar researches bears fruit. It will be fascinating to see the effect it will have on our lives and on the way we see intelligence.
