The human brain is special…to humans. The ability to create art, culture, music is great…if you are human. But not if you are a bat. The bat brain is also remarkable: eco-locate insects at night. One is not better than the other, just specialized. Same for all other animals.
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From our perspective, our brain is exceptional. From our perspective also the sun goes around the Earth. But thought that we were the center of universe limited science. To think our brains are exceptional limits, IMO, neuroscience
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Golgi stained single cells, but when he looked at his experiments, he “saw” a continuous network because he could not accept that the brain would be built like other organs. It had to be different. Our frameworks influence our interpretations. And that bias limited science.
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When Galen thought our soul--what made us human--resided in heart, no progress was made on circulatory system. Nothing could be learned from other animals bc they don't have souls like us. Took >1000 yrs and William Harvey to open up a frog to figure out heart is a pump.
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To be sure, our brains are different from other animals. But that does not make them 'exceptional'. All brains are products of evolution. That has consequences for understanding. To understand differences, first we need to understand important similarities.
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E.g., nobody would argue that we look like bacteria. But genetic principles are conserved. Understanding those principles is imp to understand how emergent phenotypes are different between us & bacteria. I would argue same principles apply to all sciences, including neuroscience.
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The way you introduced and presented this concept was one of my favorite portions of your talk. Working with zebrafish brain, it truly resonated with me. Gracias por la inspiración!
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Excellent thread and discussion. It reminded me of the discussions of the “anthropic principle” in its different variations in physics. A lot of that comes from the aristotelian view of the “ladder of life” that dominated western science for 2,000 years. You must write it up.
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@brenopedroni essa thread resume mto o que penso sobre várias conversas que já tivemosHvala. Twitter će to iskoristiti za poboljšanje vaše vremenske crte. PoništiPoništi
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