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#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

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How to Control a Machine Without Understanding the Functionality of the Brain?

Do you think it's possible that without understanding the functionally about the brain, we just connect them? I don't expect any time in the near future we'll be able to sort of send this here as impulses that will tell me, oh, Earth to sun distance, 7.5 million, et cetera, etcetera, like nowhere. It's not about brain plasticity. It's about the input aspect. Basically, being able to control a machine is something that you can probably train your neural impulses that you're sending out to match whatever response you see in the environment.

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