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#247 — Constructing Minds

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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What Is the Appropriate Picture of Complexity in the Brain?

For a long time, people have thought about the brain as having these distinct parts. But i think there's also a growing understanding that that's really not how the brain is structured. And so if you think about neural signals as being passed from one in a region to the other like a baton in a race, you can think about neural activity and patterns that are r ed more like weather patterns or something.

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