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#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition

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Isn't That Magic in the Mystery?

Darwin knew very early on that none of the ideas that anybody had ever offered gave him a sense of understanding how evolution could have worked. He spent a lot of time working on this idea and thinking they were interesting but not knowing why. After he figured it out, he had nightmares about it. Their continuity of the species is another element that contributes to this idea that we are ourselves a total product of nature.

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