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#106 – Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is the Brain For?
To me, the point of neuroscience is to study what the brain is for. If you're a nephrologist and you want to learn about the kidney, you start by saying, what is this thing for? Well, it seems to be for taking blood on one side that has metabolites in it that are, that shouldn't be there. And then excreting that in the form of urine. That's what the kidney is for. It's like obvious. So the rest of the work is deciding how it does that. You say, well, what is the brain for? The brain, as far as I can tell, is for producing behavior. We're studying single neurons
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