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I bet the human brain is a kludge
C++ is an insult to the human brain
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
The human brain is really bad at thinking about exponential things.
Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly.
In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.
The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.
People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.
The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
I think the words 'vote strategically' translates in the human brain to: 'Oh I can't vote for what I want.' And that's discouraging.
The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.
Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.
I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.
A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.
What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.
Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.
My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.
One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.
I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.