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Studies have found that musicians appear to use their highly connected brains to give each memory multiple tags, such as a conceptual tag, an emotional tag, an audio tag, and a contextual tag, like a good Internet search engine.
But our brains' primate subdivision will see the contrasting colors without blending.
Healthy brains maintain strong connections between neurons thanks to the brain's continuous efforts to prune itself and remove unused or faulty neural connections.
Normally, amyloid beta is cleared away metabolized by microglia, the janitor cells of our brains.
This initial step into the disease, this presence of amyloid plaques accumulating, can already be found in your brains.
In slow-wave deep sleep, our glial cells rinse cerebral spinal fluid throughout our brains, clearing away metabolic waste that accumulated in our synapses while we were awake.
They were regularly given physical checkups and cognitive tests, and when they died, their brains were all donated for autopsy.
In some of these brains, scientists discovered something surprising.
Most importantly, brains change.
They know that like the rest of us, when teenagers don't get the sleep they need, their brains, their bodies and behaviors suffer with both immediate and lasting effects.
How would our brains react?
We may yet one day realize the vision of having the internet in our brains.
Would they have arrested them based on what their brains revealed?
If not, our freedom of thought, access and control over our own brains and our mental privacy will be threatened.
Workers are even sent home if their brains show less-than-stellar concentration on their jobs, or emotional agitation.
That coming out will no longer be an option, because people's brains will long ago have revealed their sexual orientation, their political ideology or their religious preferences, well before they were ready to consciously share that information with other people.
Or can the government or society tell us what we can do with our own brains?
Can the NSA spy on our brains using these new mobile devices?
This is exactly why our brains need special protection.
If our brains are just as subject to data tracking and aggregation as our financial records and transactions, if our brains can be hacked and tracked like our online activities, our mobile phones and applications, then we're on the brink of a dangerous threat to our collective humanity.
This right would secure for us our freedom of thought and rumination, our freedom of self-determination, and it would insure that we have the right to consent to or refuse access and alteration of our brains by others.
I'm asking you, carve out a little bit of time in your brains to think about the technology that you work on, the companies that you start, the design that you do.
Somehow, within each of our brains, the combined activity of many billions of neurons, each one a tiny biological machine, is generating a conscious experience.
Once we start explaining its properties in terms of things happening inside brains and bodies, the apparently insoluble mystery of what consciousness is should start to fade away.
And what makes it really hard to see this paradox and even wrap our brains around it is that we have this thing that I call the quantification bias, which is the unconscious belief of valuing the measurable over the immeasurable.
Our brains respond to attractive faces even when we're not thinking about beauty.
Our brains seem to reflexively associate beauty and good.
Elizabeth Redcay, a neuroscientist at the University of Maryland, tried to map the difference between what goes on in our brains when we interact in person versus when we're watching something that's static.
Even with brains full of plaques and tangles, some people stayed sharp to the end.
Second, we're going to need to scan individual human brains in fine spatial and chemical detail, to see exactly what cells are where, connected to what, of what type.
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