The brain can be modeled as a computer, but that does not mean that thought is computation. AI is human intelligence, disguised and leveraged by computation.
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It’s a lot to ask of one type of cell, however unique, that it be what makes humans more intelligent than chimpanzees and that it create language.
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It is ironic that otherwise intelligent people must play the “we’re just another animal” game while demanding attention for ideas that only humans can give.
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As we learn more about memory, it takes a while to even process what we are learning but the research may help treat memory-related disorders.
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Even since neuroscientists started imaging the brain, they’ve been turning up cases where people are missing brain parts we would expect them to need in order to do something — but they are doing that very thing anyway. One example, written up in LiveScience in 2019, concerns women who are missing their olfactory bulbs (illustrated) but can still smell: Researchers have discovered a small group of people that seem to defy medical science: They can smell despite lacking “olfactory bulbs,” the region in the front of the brain that processes information about smells from the nose. It’s not clear how they are able to do this, but the findings suggest that the human brain may have a greater ability to Read More ›