Dr. Michael Kilgard

And then this period of reflection where you're wondering about it, you're thinking about, for me, often looking back over my pictures, either of

Having a child or going on vacation is helpful in reorganizing it and reframing it.

For me, those are helpful things to do.

But the idea that this is all happening at one snapshot, that's how we used to think of it.

We used to think of it as light bulbs went off, you memorize the picture, and you're done.

But that's not how any of the ideas, it's not how math is viewed, it's not how language is organized in our brain.

It's a series of these memorization events.

We're trying to make use of it.

And what's going to be useful is hard to anticipate, hard to predict.

So I like to think of it sort of from an information point of view.

How many bits of information?

So a bit of information is just a yes or a no.

And we now live in a world where a floppy drive doesn't have a kilobit.

Yeah, you could get gigabits.

You can get terabits.

So we're talking about billions, trillions of bits.

And you wonder how much did you learn when you were going up to the plate and you were going to hit the ball?

Well, this pitcher makes a particular look when he's going to give a slider.

This person gives a particular glint in their eye when they're about to say something mean.

Each way you watch that person is giving information about what's happening in the future.