Sublime

As neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert writes, “The entire purpose of the human brain is to produce movement. Movement is the only way we have of interacting with the world.”

Life, among other things, is copy-making machinery.

The frontal lobe,

If the brain is indeed reducing redundancy as Barlow suggests, then only a small number of neurons should be active at a time.

you’ll see that the density and shape of the cells vary as you move from top to bottom. These differences define the layers.

the nerve impulse from one cell influences the behavior of another cell.

non-equilibrium physics).

The overall idea is that cells want any information that will help them predict when they will be driven from below.