Dr. David Eagleman

We're going to forget about, you know, a single cell in the brain is as complicated as a city.

It's got the entire human genome.

It's trafficking millions of proteins.

Let's put all that aside.

Just imagine it's a circle and it's connected to other cells and each connection has a certain strength.

And that's what we call an artificial neural network.

Now, that went off in its own direction.

And the kind of amazing, surprising part is how successful it's been to just get rid of all the detail.

But it's still super different than what human brains are like.

So just an example, this thing I mentioned at the very beginning about how we're a team of rivals under the hood.

You've got all these different competing neural networks that are trying to drive your behavior and so on.

The fact that we're emotional, the fact that we are driven by different appetites, whether food or sexuality or whatever it is.

But, you know, your chat GPT, you don't want that in the chat GPT.

So it's just an artificial neural network, many layers deep.

And it's extraordinary at what it does.

But it's so different than a human.

For example, the fact that it's read everything on the planet and remembers it.

And you have it.

You would need a thousand lifetimes to read that much.

And, of course, you wouldn't remember much of it.