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#168: Orwell 2.0 (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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The Complexity of Neurons

The number of dendrites that connect them to other neurons is spectacularly large often in the thousands. In order to see the picture of the neurons so you can understand how the signals come in, it's like one input and eight outputs. You could be off by orders of magnitude. It does not properly represent the system. Not only that, but inherently the most complex stuff in the universe is the biology. And in order to get it simple enough to get you to understand anything new, they have to purge so much of the complexity That creates a false impression inherently.

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