Dr. Michael Kilgard
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That's just how it is.
It's a hard problem we didn't evolve with.
We don't have a great solution.
But we could do something about it.
This was true of cancer 100 years ago.
We would just say, Grandpa died of old age.
We didn't know there were cells ravishing his body, prostate cancer, colon cancer, cervical cancer.
We didn't know that.
We just thought...
He got bad.
His heart stopped.
He died.
That's what happened.
Now we took it apart, but it took decade after decade after decade.
And we first thought there was one cell type.
Now we know it's a whole living ecosystem of cancer cells feeding each other alive, and you can't just attack it one way.
You've got to attack it multiple ways.
That's how I'm coming to understand these brain disorders.
They're really tricky bastards.
When you look at HIV, you go, ooh, that's a good one.