首先我会简单介绍这本书的作者，你会知道这本书为何值得一读并且作者的言语值得信任（至少在我看来）。
英文书名：《On Intelligence》
中文书名：《人工智能的未来》《论智能》
作者：Jeff Hawkins（杰夫·霍金斯），康奈尔大学电气工程专业的毕业生，于1992年1月成立于美国硅谷创办了PalmComputing公司。掌上型电脑PalmPilot、智能电话Treo以及许多手持装置的发明人，在本书中提到他有自己的脑实验室。
介绍到此结束。
基于我是读完了第五章才开始写的读后感，所以关于前面的内容我只能略过了——记忆太差，只有个大概的印象，无法写成文章——这也说明了写读后感的重要性，将几十页的文字用自己的理解三言两语概括，加上自己的理解，利于巩固记忆，也利于以后回忆。
第五章节选：
In the simple example of the rat looking for the cheese, the rat remembers the
maze and uses this memory to predict that it will see the cheese around the
corner. But the rat could turn left or turn right; only by simultaneously
remembering the cheese and the correct behavior, "turn right at the fork," can the
rat make the prediction of the cheese come true. Although this is a trivial example,
it gets to the essence of how sensory prediction and behavior are intimately
related. All behavior changes what we see, hear, and feel. Most of what we sense
at any moment is highly dependent on our own actions. Move your arm in front of
your face. To predict seeing your arm, your cortex has to know that it has
commanded the arm to move. If the cortex saw your arm moving without the
corresponding motor command, you would be surprised. The simplest way to
interpret this would be to assume your brain first moves the arm and then predicts
what it will see. I believe this is wrong. Instead I believe the cortex predicts seeing
the arm, and this prediction is what causes the motor commands to make the
prediction come true. You think first, which causes you to act to make your
thoughts come true.
这段话让我想起了一个心理学症状：自证预言。
自证预言(self-fulfilling prophecy)是一种在心理学上常见的症状，意指人会不自觉的按已知的预言来行事，最终令预言发生。——摘自百科
并不是大脑先命令手臂移动，然后才能预测到将要看到的景象。而是脑皮层预测到看见了胳膊，是这种预测引发了运动命令并使预测变为现实。也就是说，你首先想，然后促使自己来行动实现这个想法。这跟我的生活经验是完全匹配的。在细节上我们很难发觉我们是先预测再实现，因为太熟练了，熟练到没法引起人们注意。但在一些宏观的事情上我打赌我们绝对是如此，我们就是这么生活的——你会想，然后有意无意地朝着预想的目标前进——这也说明了想象力的重要性。