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Unlocking the mysteries of our brain | David Eagleman

The TED Interview

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The Hard Problem of Neural Science

This is an unsolved question of neural science. We don't know how to take the tools we have and build consciousness. It may be that pain is a way of summarizing something so you can use it as a building block for future things. And two things i really like the a two year old growing and then pruning of nurons, and also like the idea that knowledge is built on top of all of humanity's information before that. I happen to be super siber optimistic about this point, which i think the next generation is guaranteed to be smarter than us,. Like, significantly so.

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