brain

“If by symbol, we mean the ability to form sort of discrete categories represent sort of discrete categories in our, you know, mental representation system. Then I think pretty much every brain has some sort of symbolic representation.”

“Our brains actually use digital communication internally. A neuron, you know neurons send spike to communicate with each other. And the reason is it's easier to regenerate a binary signal than it is to regenerate an analog signal, and it's more efficient energ…”

“Is it necessary to have explicitly hardwired mechanisms in our brain that allows us to do things like symbolic manipulation or reasoning? And I find that hard to believe that, that they need to be hardwired.”

“So we now know these drugs are primarily working, not on your gut, but on your brain.”

“If you never get any adversity or anything that's negative, You're just going to take this for granted, and you'll just be exactly as happy as before, except now it will require a lot more to just get you to that baseline. So in a way we need to constantly get…”

“Most of the brain is, is actually not relevant for communicating with the outside world or with artificial intelligence. Most of the brain is taking care of the body and not in ways that are Particularly relevant to interfacing with the outside world.”

“When you look inside these AI models, you see These mathematical objects that look a lot like what you see in the brain in neuroscience. Like, the representations are converging, and this is an empirical finding.”

“I don't think everything consciousness does or is, is computable. I think the brain is more analog than digital in many ways.”

“In computers, you can run the same software on any number of different hardwares. But in brains, hardware and software are absolutely indistinguishable. Every experience, every memory is a physical set of connections in the brain.”