Dr. Giulia Enders

I need an inflammation here.

So let's initiate that.

And then they have a go at it.

So you're saying it's almost like my immune system is making these decisions like a conscious thinking thing.

Well, yes, because it is a nice term to throw around, consciousness.

But what do we base it on?

We base it on how much information is connected and summarized into one.

For example, with artificial intelligence, we say about 150 million connections are made to create AI saying, you look handsome or something like that.

And so when you look at the immune system and the amount of cells and then the number of connections that are made between all of these cells, it is much more than 150 million.

So it's actually way more complicated than AI.

And with that number, actually, it gets much more close to the connections forming consciousness in the brain.

So this is why you can confidently say it is quite similar to that process.

That's really cool.

I think I'm definitely coming away from this with a sense of how complex it all is.

I'd like to come back to something you said a bit earlier, because you said that the immune system can be sort of set too high and attack innocent targets.

What happens?

What are you describing?

And why does that happen?

There's certainly the time when it just has an inflammatory reaction towards something in a wound, for example.

That's usually good, but even there, it can sometimes go overboard a bit.