Hawkins was on Lex Fridmans podcast a while back. Seems like he's got some controversial ideas based on what I saw in the comments, and he definitely doesn't suffer from lack of confidence, but the hierarchical reference frame concept makes a lot of sense and kind of maps to what i feel like is going on in my head when I go about my day.
Does Lex Fridman show have a community/comment section somewhere? Or just on Twitter?
I don't work with AI but that's a must-listen to podcast these days.
Not that i know if, he's u/UltraMarathonMan on reddit you could try hitting him up there
Interview videos are also available on youtube with comments section enabled.
There's a fairly active Slack attached to his Self Driving cars MIT course which covers his podcast too.
I'm not going to link directly, but Googling will find the invitation link.