Brain

6 statements across 4 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 15, 2016 by Elon Musk · across every show →

Everything said about Brain, oldest first

Sep 15, 2016 positive
Insight
Musk: Humans are bandwidth-limited between their brains and digital tools
“I think having a high bandwidth interface to the brain, like we're currently bandwidth limited. We have a digital tertiary self in the form of our email capabilities, our computers, phones, applications we're effectively superhuman but we're extremely bandwidt…”
Elon Musk Sep 15, 2016 ▶ 2:16 Elon Musk : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
Jun 28, 2017 positive
Insight
Shanahan: Physical embodiment is the origin of human intelligence
“No doubt when it comes to human intelligence and human consciousness Our physical embodiment is a huge part of that. It's in, it's where our intelligence originates from because what we, what our brains are really here to do is to help us to navigate and manip…”
Murray Shanahan Jun 28, 2017 ▶ 12:26 Ex Machina's Scientific Advisor - Murray Shanahan · Y Combinator
Mar 15, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Watts: Psilocybin deactivates brain regions driving negative rumination loops
“And the key finding was that psilocybin seems to deactivate the part of your mind or brain that is responsible for ruminating, for negative thinking on a loop.”
Dr. Rosalind Watts Mar 15, 2018 ▶ 2:21 Researching Psilocybin's Effects on Depression - Dr. Rosalind Watts · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Insight
Hodak: The human brain is almost literally an information-processing computer
“Well, I mean, the brain is a computer, and it's gonna, saying that it's gonna get me yelled at by some corner of the field, but I think, like, I think that you can take that, like, almost literally. It's a very different architecture than, like, a, like a von …”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 18:01 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Adults cured of congenital cataracts struggle to process visual information
“There actually are some cases of patients that were born blind who but it wasn't it wasn't a loss of the optic nerve, it wasn't something in the brain, but they had congenital cataracts, so their vision was blurry from birth, and they were never able to really…”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 6:20 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hodak: Internal representations in AI models closely resemble biological brain patterns
“When you train AI models, like image models or, and even language models the representations that you get inside them look a lot like the representations you see in the brain.”
Max Hodak Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 36:25 The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
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