Tag: brain science
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Sufficient technology
Let’s hypothesise sufficient brain scans. As far as I know, we don’t have better than either very low resolution full-brain imaging (millions of synapses per voxel), or very limited high resolution imaging (thousands of synapses total), at least not for living brains. Let’s just pretend for the sake of argument that we have synapse-resolution full-brain…
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Hypothesise first, test later
Brought to you by me noticing that when I watch Kristen Bell playing an awful person in The Good Place, I feel as stressed as when I have to consciously translate to or from German in real-life situations and not just language apps. Idea: System 2 thinking (effortful) is stressful to the mind in the…
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Unlearnable
How many things are there, which one cannot learn? No matter how much effort is spent trying? I’m aware that things like conscious control of intestinal peristalsis would fit this question (probably… I mean, who would’ve tried?) but I’m not interested in purely autonomous stuff. Assuming the stereotypes are correct, I mean stuff like adults…
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