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Pondering Cerebral Computation and Consciousness with Christof Koch

Brain Ponderings podcast with Mark Mattson

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Is There a Difference Between a Stroke and a Developmental Facial Blindness?

The brain's very energy efficiency has been compared with computers. Have you thought about rolls of the energy distribution and access in computation? O pomtan, spacific computation, the brain does it's a good question. I think power is one of many constraints that the brain has to operate. It may explain why we have on or off cells, because it turns out it would be much more expensive to have base line cells that have higher firing rates. And then when there's an increase in light somewhere, increases in the brain seems to have done two different sets of neurons, only responding to reduction at same time. But i don't think that means that everything in the brain can be explained

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