
Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance
Thing in itself
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Parallel Computing in the Mind, Mind, Body Problem
The idea of the brain is a parallel distributed processor. It has 86 billion neurons and they don't have a central clock. They're all just doing their own thing in coordination with each other, but not completely controlled. And so that's why computer science and theoretical neuroscience has developed a new field called neuromorphic computing to make computers more energy efficient.
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