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Comment by jen729w

2 years ago

Sure.

> Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

> To understand even the basics of how the brain maintains the human intellect, we might need to know not just the current state of all 86 billion neurons and their 100 trillion interconnections, not just the varying strengths with which they are connected, and not just the states of more than 1,000 proteins that exist at each connection point, but how the moment-to-moment activity of the brain contributes to the integrity of the system.

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