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A conversation between Terry Sejnowski and Stephen Wolfram (August 12, 2021) Part 1

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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What Is the Overall Framework of an Electro Receptor?

The shark has a sense of the magnetic field around it, which allows it to navigate. Just like we know and we recognize edges and things like that, whon d you recognize in electro space? Ok, ok, so this is this. This is electric fish. They also have large receptors andnand it turns out that he was studying something called the jamming avoidance response - how do you prevent your electroceptor from getting overloaded by your own electric reception? Cause they can put out their own electric field. It's amazing. So it's not only at passive, they actively create electric and they can use it to hunt for food, for example. And o specifics and communication, very

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