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A conversation between Terry Sejnowski and Stephen Wolfram (August 12, 2021) Part 1

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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What's Your Favorite Organism?

Most synapses in i our brains o the time scale s a millo second, right? Very fast. The barn owl is an amazingly specialized creature for sound localization much better than we are and that uses it for hunting mice in the dark with ecoocation. And so ifif ask me about, you know, my the auditory animal of all time, i would say it's the barn owl, and in it. But i if you talk about, ok, this particular synaps i studied,. I spent a couple of years at it. It's really slopo gritus we're talking about onano seconds, verse millo seconds, right? Factors femillion. What made this

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