If we assume that the computation of neurons or a collection of neurons are irreducible, then that implies a limitation of the reductionist approach of many neuroscience research.
Right now a virus, from a bat and a pangolin, plus our efforts for centralised information control, have decimated the world economy. It is probably our hunter-gatherer blood kicking in right now - after all there was still intermarriage between neanderthals and mitochondrial eve
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To this day, Mongolia has 2 people per square km. In Temujin's day, it was one of the most sparsely populated places on the planet -- but connected to the steppe, a central land. From this wilderness, a horde emerged, enough to overcome everything but itself.pic.twitter.com/MnkvQKMrmM
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Kublai Khan eventually overcame the Chinese rulers, and founded the syncretic Yuan dynasty. If you study language, it is hard to avoid the fact that this formed the central pivot point in Chinese language, history, and political thought. And, moreover, in a move of great wisdom,
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