Dr. Eric Haseltine
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She said we know 1% of what there is to know.
I wanted to say maybe one-tenth of one-tenth of one-tenth of 1%.
I think that some problems are too small to see.
Some are too big.
And it's too big for the human mind to get their mind around just how
And this is the point that I think it was Niels Bohr or Feynman or someone like that said, yeah, quantum physics is not only weirder than we know, then weirder than we can know.
Well, he also said, Bohr has also said, prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
But, you know, this brings up a fascinating difference between the two of us, which I regard as a strength and that we look at the world very differently.
She is a clinician.
She wants to make her patients' bodies heal.
So she's not into mind-body medicine in the sense of understanding the brain and the mind for its own sake, but she wants to heal the body by, you know, understanding the brain.
So her goal is healing the body, right?
But I think what I wanted to say is the difference is she's very practical and pragmatic.
She has a very concrete end result, health.
right, where I'm more of a bench scientist than a clinician, right?
And so I'm interested in the deep why.
So in the book, the few parts that I wrote, because it's really her book and I'm just throwing in a few pieces of neuroscience,
That if I had to rewrite that book, my part again, I'd read very different.
Because I interpreted the body the way a neuroscientist would, which is the map of the body on the brain.
We have the, you mentioned the Wernicke's and Braque's area for speech, but there's similar areas for motor and sensory in which you have this little human version of you called the homunculus.