"I think the pie in the sky, the North Star is real-time biological computing, where we're actually plugging biological networks or neurons into data centers for real-time inference, for things like intuition, for a personalized AI that's constantly learning, just like the brain does."
Because human beings remember with neurons, we are disposed to see more of what we have already seen, hear anew what we have heard most often, think just what we have always thought. Our minds are burdened by an informational inertia whose headlong course is not easy to slow… No individual can think his way around his own Attractors, since they are embedded in the structure of thought.
Contrary to the standard belief that our senses are a kind of passive window onto the world, what is emerging is a picture of an ever-active brain that is always striving to predict what the world might currently have to offer. Those predictions then structure and shape the whole of human experience, from the way we interpret a person's facial expression, to our feelings of pain, to our plans for an outing to the cinema.
Blood proteins churn the injected chemicals into a soft, flexible electrode mesh that seamlessly wraps around delicate neurons. Pulses of light aimed at the mesh quiet hyperactive cells.
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We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. The emotional brain is so intimately involved in all aspects of cognition that there is no reason to separate emotion and cognition.
2mo ago
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.
It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real. It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain.
