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If we want AI systems and robots that can live alongside us, understand the type of people we are, deduce what we don't know that we want to know, infer what we intend by what we say,...navigate social relationships with groups of humans, with all their hidden rules and etiquettes--in other words, if we want true human like systems, theory of mind will undeniably be an essential component of that system.
Feb 14, 2026 08:30AM
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains


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The first brain and the bilaterian body share the same initial evolutionary purpose: They enable animals to navigate by steering. Steering was the breakthrough #1.
Dec 14, 2025 09:46AM
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains


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I am hooked from the first chapter.
Dec 12, 2025 08:01AM
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains


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