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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

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The Turing Test

If every cell in your brain is doing what it was doing, what else could be different? Of course philosophers would then start saying no. So let's take it as your answer was yes, that you would be feeling the same thing. Okay. Now here's where it gets fun. Your brain cells don't need to be in your head anymore at all right? The only reason they're wired together is to affect each other,. But we don't need that anymore because optogenetically we're providing that activity pattern for as long as needed. We're providing the effect of the communication. They don't even need to be connected anymore. I could spread your neurons all over the continent,

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