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22 - Shard Theory with Quintin Pope

AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

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The Multiple Cortices of the Brain

The genome specifies something about the architecture of your brain but it does not like set very many behaviors at least none that we think of as intelligent. There are different regions in the brain and they are genetically specified to varying degrees. Like I mentioned probably my guess is that there are a pain response hardwired like pain response behaviors that cause your hand to flinch away from painful stimulus. Okay cool. So when you said there were multiple cortices which cortex is the? Are we talking about all the cortices or are we talking about some important cortices here? Do you mean like I think if the shard theory place it says something like the cortex is randomly initialized at birth?

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