Dr. Poppy Crum

And it's wonderful to have that preserved because that doesn't translate, right, through and without that history.

In any case, I'm a huge advocate for integration of technology, but it's, for me, the world is data.

And I do think that way.

It's, you know, and I look at the way my daughter behaves.

I'm like, okay, well, what data is coming in?

And why did she, you know, respond that way?

And, you know, there's an example I can give, but, you know, we were talking about neuroplasticity.

It's like we are the creatures of sort of three things.

One is, you know,

Our sensory systems, how they've evolved, and be it by the intrinsic noise that is degrading our sensory receptors or the external strain.

My brain is going to have access to about the same amount of information as someone with hearing loss if I'm in a very noisy environment.

And so suddenly you've induced, you've compromised the data I have access to.

And then also our sort of experientially established priors, right?

Our priors being, if you think about the brain as sort of a Bayesian model, things aren't always deterministic for us like they are for some creatures.

Our brain's having to take data and make decisions about it and respond to it.

And we should get into, I mean, some of the things that make us the most effective in our environments and just in interacting in the world is how fast and effective we are with dealing with those probabilistic situations, those things where your brain...

It's like probabilistic inference is a great indicator of success in an environment.

And, you know, be it a work environment, be it just, you know, walking down the street.

And that's how do we deal with this, like, data that doesn't just tell us we have to go right or left, but there's a lot of different inputs.

And it's our sort of situational intelligence in the world.