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Anonymous Thu Nov 8 07:32:22 2012 No.5235108 [Reply] [Original]

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
- Emerson M. Pugh

There's something more at play here...

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 08:00:16 2012 No.5235155 >>5235108 this implies we cannot understand something more complex than ourselves. i guess the key lies to understanding that at a fundamental level it is not as complex.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 8 08:03:15 2012 No.5235161 Pithy but false, unless by 'understand' you mean 'hold a complete mental model of every neuron' instead of 'have coherent models we could use to build a brain from scratch and write programs to predict the behavior of'.

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