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Unlocking the mysteries of our brain | David Eagleman

The TED Interview

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The Potato Head Model

The brain is a all purpose compute device. And whatever spikes its getting it says, oh, that's relevant for my behaviour. I can do something with and so the potato head model is simply that you can switch the things around,. You can even build completely new senses and plug em in anywhere, and it doesn't matter. So i will come into that pot a bit more but let's stop festival thinking about someone with all five senses - if it is five, a basic working cind of quite as normal. A talk a bit about this miracle of how this, this brain in the dark of a baby, stood of developing.

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