Jeff Hawkins is the founder of the palm pilot and invested a large portion of his wealth in an institute where he studies how the brain works. In On Intelligence Jeff suggests that the brain functions on memory, sequences, and prediction. This is why people can recognize a person after they have had a haircut, but a computer can't.
The Wikipedia article on the book explains it better than I could. I will say that the book was not too technically demanding, and while I did get lost at some places, most of the time I followed the material. Jeff has invented a lot of great analogies to visualize the concepts he is outlining. It is a good read to understand some past work on artificial intelligence, and how the brain works, as well as were the science might be heading...
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