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Somewhere over the brainbow
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 r... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, each paid attention to a different aspect of the creature. The brain may do something similar by mapping out the qualities of perceptions, experiences and abstract concepts along various dimensions, with the help of the same system that it uses to map out physical spaces.
Jordana Cepelewicz • The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces | Quanta Magazine
The biggest question centred on how to define a symbol. Which aspects of neural activity are actually carrying information and which are incidental? What, essentially, is the neural code?