I haven't read his book, but his ideas are interesting.<p>A little taste from TED: [<a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/125" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/125</a>]<p>Also a fascinating and much more technical talk Hawkins gave at IBM's Conference on Cognitive Computing, watch till the end for the grilling he gets from established Neuroscientists and Computing people: [<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2500845581503718756" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2500845581503718756</a>]