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And when things work well, then the nervous system works well, and everything functions.
So the message here is that, in Alzheimer's disease, the lights are out, but there is someone home, and we're able to turn the power back on to these areas of the brain, and as we do so, we expect that their functions will return.
The implications of this, of course, is that we may be able to modify the symptoms of the disease, but I haven't told you but there's also some evidence that we might be able to help the repair of damaged areas of the brain using electricity, and this is something for the future, to see if, indeed, we not only change the activity but also some of the reparative functions of the brain can be harvested.
At the end, our bodily functions and independence are declining to zero.
What could they learn to do? Basic Windows functions, browsing, painting, chatting and email, games and educational material, music downloads, playing video.
The department functions like a giant human resource engine that would be the envy of even some of the most successful corporations.
Okay, the next feature of consciousness, after this marvelous unified conscious field, is that it functions causally in our behavior.
Well, as Chris pointed out, I study the human brain, the functions and structure of the human brain.
Well, there are many ways of approaching the functions of the human brain.
What you get is a highly selective loss of one function, with other functions being preserved intact, and this gives you some confidence in asserting that that part of the brain is somehow involved in mediating that function.
So, to explain this curious disorder, we look at the structure and functions of the normal visual pathways in the brain.
It failed partly because the courts are too passive, partly because the legislatures are corrupted, by which I don't mean that there's bribery operating to stop real change, but more the economy of influence that governs how Congress functions means that policymakers here will not understand this until it's too late to fix it.
We found that we have, on average, 86 billion neurons, 16 billion of which are in the cerebral cortex, and if you consider that the cerebral cortex is the seat of functions like awareness and logical and abstract reasoning, and that 16 billion is the most neurons that any cortex has, I think this is the simplest explanation for our remarkable cognitive abilities.
And we've put intestinal human cells in a gut on a chip, and they're under constant peristaltic motion, this trickling flow through the cells, and we can mimic many of the functions that you actually would expect to see in the human intestine.
Now, it was only 20 years ago that we hardly had any data on women's health beyond our reproductive functions.
That’s the network that communicates with adrenal glands and internal organs to help regulate functions like heart rate, digestion, and respiration.
That vision was, because all of the functions and characteristics of all biological entities, including viruses and living cells, are written into the code of DNA, if one can read and write that code of DNA, then they can be reconstructed in a distant location.
My instinct tells you that any improvement would be rather slight, because they were designed as functions of the system they were designed to fit, and as I said, type is very adaptable.
It might have been a single paragraph that was missing, or yet, even more subtle than that, a single letter, one out of three billion letters that was changed, that was altered, yet had profound effects in terms of how the brain functions and affects behavior.
They fit together in a network that's starting to make sense now in terms of how the brain functions.
But the more we learn about how that limiter functions, the more we learn how we can push it back just a bit, in some cases by convincing the brain that the body won't be in mortal danger by pushing harder.
Now, it was French philosopher Louis Althusser who pointed out that ideology functions in such a way that it creates a veil of obviousness.
Sadly, this ideology still functions very well, which is why people who are poor might feel ashamed for their poverty.
The classical cases of emergence are all cases of emergent behavior, how a traffic jam behaves, how a hurricane functions, how a living organism reproduces and adapts and metabolizes, all questions about objective functioning.
You could apply that to the human brain in explaining some of the behaviors and the functions of the human brain as emergent phenomena: how we walk, how we talk, how we play chess, all these questions about behavior.
Actually, all we've got to do is explain the objective functions, the behaviors of the brain, and then we've explained everything that needs to be explained.
Foremost, it was its enormous power, because it united different functions in one organization.
That's why today we can use the files to get a better understanding of how a surveillance state functions.
Well, I'm wondering about that too, and we're running a bunch of experiments in my lab right now to try to find a number of other possible specializations in the brain for other very specific mental functions.
But importantly, I don't think we have specializations in the brain for every important mental function, even mental functions that may be critical for survival.
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