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#40 — Complexity & Stupidity

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Computer in the Brain

i keep meeting people who will argue thisand some of them are very high level in the sciences. No one to my knowledge thinks that the brain is acomp or in exactly the way our current computers are. We're not talking about von neman architecture in our brains, yes. But the idea that it doesn't process information at all strikes me as fairly delusional. So i was hoping we could talk a little bit about the ways in which biological systems, in particular, brains, in code and and transmit information.

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