Ask A Genius 309 – Constructivist and Essentialist Consciousness (3)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/10/03
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Rick Rosner: So, it’s big ass groups of neurons in complicated patterns of connectivity, somebody did some kind of study on the patterns of such kind of activity and discover that those patterns were best expressed in like eleven dimensional space, which is a goofy idea or a goofy way to say that the patterns of connectivity are widely varied that if you looked at every club say that a neuron belong to they would be a bunch of really different clubs you know there’d be a furry club and there’d be aerial acrobatics club and there’d be a fungus toenails club because they’d be all over the place and that it’s only in combination that you get sophisticated mental products, thoughts, emotions.
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