How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine
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How the Human Brain Contends With the Strangeness of Zero | Quanta Magazine
To be frank, science knows surprisingly little about mind and consciousness. Current orthodoxy holds that consciousness is created by electrochemical reactions in the brain, and that mental experiences fulfil some essential data-processing function.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
expressed the difference between zero and one. The problem of zero, or nonexistence, obsessed Leibniz. How could zero—pure potential—transform to one, a whole and complete material object? The transition between nothing and something is the central question of…well, everything. All our spiritual and intellectual systems—religion and science, but
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A more controversial application than this scanning-the-brain-to-understand-it scenario is scanning-the-brain-to-download-it. When an entire network of neurons receives input (from the outside world or from other networks of neurons), the signaling amongst them appears at first to be frenzied and random. So the question addressed by the San Diego... See more