David Eagleman

And that's one of the things I'm going to be doing.

Speaking of the future of the brain is building live wired devices.

So instead of being something like, you know, a phone, which, um,

becomes outdated and eventually the technology is not good enough and you just throw it out because it's a layer of hardware with a layer of software on the top.

What if you could build something like a brain that is constantly reconfiguring and learning and getting better with time?

This is the framework that I put forward in the book, is that the right way to think about the brain actually is like a Darwinian competition, where each neuron is fighting for its own survival.

And when you look at single cell organisms, they're spitting out chemicals as a defense mechanism.

And when you look at neurons in the brain, they're doing the same thing.

It's just that we call those neurotransmitters.

And we say, oh, look, you're passing information along.

But I don't think that was the intention.

I think it sells all

fighting for survival.

And in one of these, you know, amazing, bizarre, biological results, you get a human brain out of this.

But yes, many of the neurons in your brain die.

And what you get, you know, in your first two years of development is this massive overgrowth of all these things growing like a garden that's going nuts.

And then

From about the age of two onward, all you're doing is you're really pruning the garden.

You're taking things away.

And cells all over your body actually have this way of committing suicide.