Sublime

brains are already organized and knowledgeable.

systems. But attention in humans exhibits a unique feature that further accelerates learning: social attention sharing.

Your brain doesn’t want to pay the energy cost of spiking neurons, so the goal is to reconfigure the network to waste as little power as possible.

consolidation which happens in all domains: a shift from slow, conscious, and effortful processing to fast, unconscious, and automatic expertise.

Once a synaptic memory is formed, the neurons can now rest: when they stop firing, the memory remains dormant, unconscious but inscribed in the very anatomy of my neuronal circuits. In the future, thanks to those connections, an external clue (say, a photo of the presidential office) may suffice to produce a cascade of neuronal activity in the

The idea is simple: at the end of each game, the winning software strengthens its actions, while the loser weakens them—but both have also learned to evaluate their moves more efficiently.

les neurosciences modernes ont démontré qu’il avait eu raison d’affirmer que seule une partie de notre cerveau était consciente. Le moi conscient constitue une sorte de « noyau » ou d’essence concentrée qui occupe une place spéciale au centre du labyrinthe neuronal, et ne se rapporte pas au cerveau tout entier.

records the unfolding episodes of our daily lives.