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Even if we could measure what every cell is doing at all times, we would still have to make sense of the recorded activity patterns, and that's so difficult, chances are we'll understand these patterns just as little as the brains that produce them.

Your brains are about 100 million times more complicated.

We cope with this pressure by having brains, and within our brains, decision-making centers that I've called here the "Actor."

So we bred flies whose brains were more or less randomly peppered with cells that were light addressable.

Here's what happened in two instances: We're comparing two strains of flies, each of them having about 100 light-addressable cells in their brains, shown here in green on the left and on the right.

So like, you can't feed cows their own brains or you get mad cow disease, and inbreeding and incest and, let's see, what's the other one?

Because I know our brains are resilient.

The medical examiner in Pittsburgh decided to look at their brains and found this disease.

So I ended up starting the Concussion Legacy Foundation, actually formalized the work, so it wasn't just some guy calling for brains.

Turns out, if you want to know how to cure degenerative brain disease, you have to start by actually studying the brains.

And so we start this brain bank, and it's my job to get the brains for Dr. Ann McKee and her brain bank, right in the middle.

So my job is to get the brains.

And it's hard on me and it's even worse on these poor families that I've been calling for the last 10 years, to ask for their brains.

And so early on in the process, as it started to really eat away at me, I decided, you know what, can I find another way to get people to donate their brains to this research?

So it's been wonderful, and the great thing about it is that it has worked in changing how we're able to get brains.

Since then, we have acquired 500 brains and found over 300 of them had CTE.

To put that in perspective, the rest of the world has not studied 100 brains since we started this.

Now, as a neuroscientist, I know that our brains, that is the thing in our head right now, that is the most complex structure known to humankind.

This is four rappers' brains.

So now we're all these paleontologists that are digging for things that we've lost on our external brains that we're carrying around in our pockets.

So they're the brains of maker projects, and here's an example of one.

Well, there are teams of scientists at Harvard and the University of Utah that are bending their brains and trying to figure out what the Tarahumara have known forever.

So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains; it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners that we are.

PK: So what have we done to their little brains?

What did we do to their brains?

In a recent experiment, a group of adults had their brains scanned in an MRI machine as they were listening to experts speak.

As they listened to the experts' voices, the independent decision-making parts of their brains switched off.

For the sake of our health, our wealth and our collective security, it's imperative that we keep the independent decision-making parts of our brains switched on.

For if we keep our independent decision-making part of our brains switched on, if we challenge experts, if we're skeptical, if we devolve authority, if we are rebellious, but also if we become much more comfortable with nuance, uncertainty and doubt, and if we allow our experts to express themselves using those terms too, we will set ourselves up much better for the challenges of the 21st century.

Especially when chimpanzees, and other animals with large brains, are studied in captivity, modern technology is helping us to search for the upper levels of cognition in some of these non-human animals.

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