# 12: Jeff Hawkins On Defining Intelligence

[@Niki007hound]

Great insights! Jeff always delivers first class ideas (higher order reference frames) that enrich our ability to understand intelligence. You provide the reference frames for understanding intelligence. Thanks a lot for sharing your valuable thoughts! And thanks also to Matt for his fine ability to extract those golden concepts in such a relaxed and enjoyable manner. I certainly would love to join you two for such a nice coffee talk, any time.

[@diy-bunny]

When Jeff speaks, everything is so vivid and simple.

[@JamesBradyGames]

Beautiful. I wrote a book on 3d game programming and had a chapter on the mathematics, linear algebra and reference frames mostly. Love the abstraction to higher orders of thinking, planning, conceptualizing etc. Genius.

[@pauloabelha]

A reference frame for some topics in the video: 23:02 - Intelligence spectrum 29:45 - Abstract thinking - Moving through abstract spaces; movements are abstract transforms. Reminds me of Jean Piaget's framework for intelligence: intelligence comes from action/transformations. I don't see an object as it is; an object is always assimilated to my reference frames and the transformations I can apply on it (how can I move through the object as the object moves through me). It is like we are meeting Reality halfway by checking what movements make sense and what are the results of transforming different objects (abstract or concrete). An object is the bundle of transformations I can apply on it (including relating it to other objects).

[@JordanMiller333]

In ml terms, I've always considered AGI to be equivalent to a structure that has the capacity for generalized transfer learning within it.

[@sergey.pinigin]

Jeff mentioned the Numenta's Reference frame paper - could you provide a link to it?

[@NumentaTheory]

numenta.com/neuroscience-research/research-publications/papers/a-framework-for-intelligence-and-cortical-function-based-on-grid-cells-in-the-neocortex/

[@Vizvamitra]

Are there any studies on "hardware limit" in dimensionality for reference frames related to concepts? Is it even measurable?

[@NumentaTheory]

We have not investigated this at all. It probably is measurable.

[@profyeah25]

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