Ep5 "How is your brain like a team of rivals?"
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
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The Power of Mindless Subagents
Tasks that seem simple are often masking enormous computational complexity. Marvin Minsky suggested that human minds perhaps were collections of enormous numbers of machine-like mindless subagents that collaborate. So the key idea is that a bunch of small specialized workers can give rise to something like a society with all kinds of rich properties that no subagent has by itself.
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