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If you look very carefully, you see that his skull has been replaced with a transparent Plexiglas dome so that the workings of his brain can be observed and also controlled with light.
I control the brain in order to understand how it works.
Now wait a minute, you may say, how can you go straight to controlling the brain without understanding it first?
They say, "If we could record the activity of our neurons, we would understand the brain."
Take a look at what brain activity might look like.
So you're looking at roughly one percent of the brain of a cockroach.
We don't understand the code used by the brain.
It's not essential that we can control the activity of all neurons in the brain, just some.
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude.
So instead of inserting a wire into one spot of the brain, re-engineer the brain itself so that some of its neural elements become responsive to diffusely broadcast signals such as a flash of light.
The approach works so well that we can write purely artificial messages directly to the brain.
Susana had engineered the fruit fly on the left so that just two out of the 200,000 cells in its brain expressed the light-activated pore.
We can incorporate such an element of adaptive intelligence into our model by assuming that the fly's brain contains not only an Actor, but a different group of cells, a "Critic," that provides a running commentary on the Actor's choices.
You can think of this nagging inner voice as sort of the brain's equivalent of the Catholic Church, if you're an Austrian like me, or the super-ego, if you're Freudian, or your mother, if you're Jewish.
So we set out to identify the cells in the fly's brain that played the role of the Critic.
These 12 cells, as shown here in green, send the output to a brain structure called the "mushroom body," which is shown here in gray.
We know from our formal model that the brain structure at the receiving end of the Critic's commentary is the Actor.
But kids are more vulnerable to brain injury.
The artist had very cleverly suggested people and clothes and wagons and all sorts of things, and my brain had taken the suggestion.
Now, what does your brain do when it takes the suggestion?
The brain just makes you think that it's got the detail there.
The brain isn't actually putting the detail in your head at all.
Your brain is actually computing that boundary, the boundary that goes right there.
Does your brain have to send little painters in there?
Your brain just lets it go.
The brain doesn't need to fill that in.
I'm Chris Nowinski, and odds are if you've met me in the last five years I've asked you, after a few minutes, a bit of an odd question: Can I have your brain?
We knew that getting hit in the head too many times with boxers would cause their brain to essentially start to rot, to degenerate.
If you want me to study him, you're going to have to figure out how to get me the brain."
How does one get a brain?" (Laughter) So I racked my brain and I thought, why don't I call the medical examiner who I think has the brain right now?
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