259. Ogi Ogas — Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Neuron Is a Self Contained Mind
The dynamics of a neuron are the same as the dynamics in a single celled creature like a bacterium or an archeon or a protozoa. Each of these have minds too, and their minds are not simple statistical mechanisms. There's la when i say non linear, that means there's feedback loops that maybe one day, for your example of a neuron, may have a completely different output on another day. Itte neron on its own is a mind that is learning and changing. And so statistics is a decent model. But if you really want to get at what's actually happening under the hood in a deep way, the statistics cannot get to ther. You need, you
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