I watched Jeff Hawkins 2003 TED talk this morning on Real Intelligence. I read his book, On Intelligence, last year and really enjoy his alternative thinking to neurology.

He made the statement that real intelligence isn’t about behavior, but about prediction.

Our neo-cortex is constantly memorizing the patterns around us and then making predictions about what comes next based on those patterns. So real intelligence is making predictions about new events.

Interesting.

It got me thinking about the patterns that we are establishing in Caden’s life.

Are we conscious of the patterns we are creating with him?

What will be his predicted outcome off the patterns we are teaching him?

What spiritual patterns are we imprinting him with? What social patterns?

How do we purposefully create the patterns that his brain will memorize and then from which predict the desired outcome?

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