Every few years, there seems to be some brain theory that appears to have immense explanatory power to a lot of people and turns out to be largely off the mark, like "left brain/right brain", "mirror neurons", and now "dopamine reward". Will this ever stop? And what's next?
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Replying to @Plinz
isn't "the brain is a classical computer" the mother of all of these "pop science" over-simplifications? ;)
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Replying to @samim
The idea that the "brain is a computer" has been somewhat popular in the 1960ies, but it is certainly not now. It is accurate, but most people don't know what "classical" or "computer" mean. Like any physically realized computer, the brain is a probabilistic finite state machine.
9:56 AM - 11 Mar 2018
from Cambridge, MA
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