The Mental model of your mind
By Jens Galatius
If you found Jerry Winds discussions on mental models at the lecture a Wharton or in his book “The Power of Impossible Thinhing” interesting, “On intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins is a must read.
Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, the Treo smart phone and other handheld devices, has developed a powerful theory of how the human brains works.
The brain is not a computer, but a memory system that stores experiences on a way that reflects the structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and their nested relationships mad making predictions based on those memories. It is this memory-prediction system that forms the basis of intelligence, perception, creativity, and even consciousness, Jeff Hawkins proposes.
Hawkins theory goes hand in hand with Jerry Winds mental models; in fact Hawkins explains how mental models are created in the brain and how they in practise often replace what we actually are sensing. When reading “On intelligence” you get a better understanding of why the theory of mental models is so strong.
Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence. ISBN 0-8050-7853-3
Read more about the book on: http://www.onintelligence.org/