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"The Brain" with David Eagleman (WiM132)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Unconscious Brain Is Trying to Automate

Before you've automatized something, it is conscious. And after that, you can't even access in t any more. So by having this capacity to simulate things and try it, we were able to find the efficiencies that whitehead is referring to. Or we could then automatize structures. There an hay, here's how we farm food s. We have plenty of food ad do not wore about here sow, we store it and so on. It sounds like by doing this, right, etching these patterns under the brain, that it can automate. I thinkyes, that's exactly right. Once we got division of labor, then we're able to do all

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