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#87: The Future of the Brain - Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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The Brain Is Not Built by Anyone

The most fundamental concept is the brain was not built by anybody. The brain evolved as a fundamental difference between mechanisms and organisms. Organisms evolve according a very long almost infinite sequence of random events in the environment. So there's no algorithm that can reproduce how our brains evolve. And so those are non-computable events during halting, you know, the halting problem. You never know when a computer is going to stop performing a computation. That's the essence of anon-computable event. We believe we particularly in the last 30, 40 years came to the idea. People would be happy if they could predict a millisecond of the stock market,. That's what supercomputers are

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