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A conversation between Terry Sejnowski and Stephen Wolfram (August 12, 2021) Part 1

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Micro Electrode That Made It Possible for Hubeland Weasel to Start Doing Single Cell Recording

Huwil weasel was one of the first people to record brain cells. He and torsan weasel were able to isolate spikes coming from single neurons. The recording launched a thousand micro electrodes into not just the visual cortex, but the entire brain. There ware about a hundred billion neurons in your brain. That's about the same number of stars as there are in the milkyway.

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