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Somewhere over the brainbow
The brain is a material network of neurons, synapses and biochemicals. The mind is a flow of subjective experiences, such as pain, pleasure, anger and love.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
To simulate a brain, we need more than Hebb’s rule, however; we need to understand how the brain is built. Each neuron is like a tiny tree, with a prodigious number of roots—the dendrites—and a slender, sinuous trunk—the axon. The brain is a forest of billions of these trees, but there’s something unusual about them. Each tree’s branches make conne
... See morePedro Domingos • The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Roughly speaking, the brain grows and develops in four steps. Neurons are created, or “born,” through the division of progenitor cells, migrate to their proper places in the brain, extend branches, and make connections.
Sebastian Seung • Connectome
Those beautiful color-dappled images are actually representations of particular areas in the brain that are working the hardest—as measured by increased oxygen consumption—when a subject performs a task such as reading a passage or reacting to stimuli, such as pictures of faces.
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
If you want to understand what a part of a brain does, you have to answer:- What connections does that brain are make (inputs, outputs)?- Where was it early in childhood development?- When and why did it evolve?
Andrew Huberman • The Science of Emotions & Relationships
Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, thinks of the brain as a society—a society of subassemblies cooperating to learn about the world.251 The image can easily be reversed. A society is a brain, a learning device that works according to the principles that drive a neural net.