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Pondering Cerebral Computation and Consciousness with Christof Koch

Brain Ponderings podcast with Mark Mattson

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Youought to Understand the Human Brain and How It Processes Information

The human brain sats, the mata, has about a hundred billion nerons and maybe a hundred trillion synaptic connections. It looks like there could be up to three to five thousand different types of cells in the entire brain. Why does the brain need thousands of them? The precise answers, we don't knowif we suspect, it has to do with evolution,. We all arise from a single cell that has one discreete function on various counds. In other words, mouse and non humans have an similar cell type though not identical. And you can see more divergences between a monkey and a human than ahuman. There is a lot of homology between our brains and those

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