How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine
Yasemin Saplakogluquantamagazine.org
How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine
The first citation given concerns the “uniqueness problem,” which emphasizes a result long known by those of us who worked on IIT: that in systems that have mathematically perfectly symmetric interactions (the specifics are complicated, but just imagine this like a geometric shape), IIT gives conflicting answers as to the boundaries of the consciou... See more
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The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It | Quanta Magazine
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But because of its many protective systems, the brain cannot be manipulated like a chemical in a test tube. It reacts to such intrusions on many levels by increasing or decreasing other chemicals and neurotransmitters in its infinitely complex electro-chemical conversation, a dialogue that goes far beyond our current ability to even track, let alon
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It is no coincidence that zero and infinity are linked in the vanishing point. Just as multiplying by zero causes the number line to collapse into a point, the vanishing point has caused most of the universe to sit in a tiny dot. This is a singularity, a concept that became very important later in the history of science—but at this early stage, mat
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The neurologist John Kounios observes8 that the brain finds ways to “reduce our mental workload,” and one way is to accept without question (or even to just ignore) much of what is going on around us at any time.
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If the brain is indeed reducing redundancy as Barlow suggests, then only a small number of neurons should be active at a time.