This book by Kevin O'Regan came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: guest. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
What it is
This work proposes a novel view to explain how we as humans can have the impression of consciously feeling things: for example the red of a sunset, the smell of a rose, the sound of a symphony, or a pain.
Every time it came up
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25
“The best treatise I've read about this is by a guy named O'Regan, he wrote a book called why red doesn't sound like a bell”— guest
The guest here is Jeff Hawkins: Founder of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and Numenta, author of On Intelligence, working to reverse-engineer the neocortex and build brain-inspired AI. Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory of intelligence and why understanding the neocortex is the path to real AI.
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