Jeff Hawkins on creativity

Revolutionary thinker and expert on artificial intelligence Jeff Hawkins, in his book On Intelligence, says AI developers must better understand what intelligence is - with memory that stores experiences that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and the relationships. He says memory-prediction systems form the basis of intelligence.

I am reading the pages on "Can you train yourself to be more creative?" - I hope he says yes!

He does: "Yes, most definetly. First you need to assume up front that there is an answer to what you are trying to solve. People give up too easily..... Second, you need to let your mind wander. You need to give your brain time and space to discover the solution....Try taking the parts of your problem and rearranging them in different ways-literally and figuratively.... "

Hawkins says to be careful, "The brain is an organ that builds models and makes creative predictions, but its models and predictions can as easily be specious as valid. Our brains are always looking at patterns and making analogies. If correct correlations cannot be found, the brain is more than happy to accept false ones."

I find this interesting to ponder, really, to try to understand the real from the unreal!