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#247 — Constructing Minds

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How Your Brain Computes Information From Sensory Surfaces

Your brain is a single structure with one hundred twenty eight billion neurons. It can take on trillions of patterns, helped along by the chemical bath that surrounds these neurons. And try to understand what launches those patterns, what maintains those patterns, what features your brain asu is computing. That's really the goal of understanding brain function.

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