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Neocortex in sentence

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Somebody said the test we're facing now, a scientist told me, is whether the combination of an opposable thumb and a neocortex is a viable combination.
But let's instead use our neocortex, our new brain, to save the Elders, some of the oldest creatures on the earth.
Researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species, the larger the neocortex, the more likely it is to be deceptive.
We study theoretical neuroscience and how the neocortex works.
So we can say, my neocortex, the part of the brain I'm interested in, has 30 billion cells.
What I'm saying is, the internal prediction is the output in the neocortex, and somehow, prediction leads to intelligent behavior.
First thing that happened in evolution with mammals is we started to develop a thing called the neocortex.
I'm going to represent the neocortex by this box on top of the old brain.
On top of it, we have this memory system called the neocortex.
So as the sensory input comes in and feeds from the old brain, it also goes up into the neocortex.
And the neocortex is just memorizing.
Humans actually developed the front of the neocortex, called the anterior part of the neocortex.
I don't have time to explain, but to understand how a brain works, you have to understand how the first part of the mammalian neocortex works, how it is we store patterns and make predictions.
So the outer part of that brain is the neocortex.
It's a story of the neocortex, which means "new rind."
So in these early mammals, because only mammals have a neocortex, rodent-like creatures.
That's when the dinosaurs went extinct, that's when 75 percent of the animal and plant species went extinct, and that's when mammals overtook their ecological niche, and to anthropomorphize, biological evolution said, "Hmm, this neocortex is pretty good stuff," and it began to grow it.
And mammals got bigger, their brains got bigger at an even faster pace, and the neocortex got bigger even faster than that and developed these distinctive ridges and folds basically to increase its surface area.
If you took the human neocortex and stretched it out, it's about the size of a table napkin, and it's still a thin structure.
We still have that old brain that provides our basic drives and motivations, but I may have a drive for conquest, and that'll be sublimated by the neocortex into writing a poem or inventing an app or giving a TED Talk, and it's really the neocortex that's where the action is.
And whenever they stimulated particular, very small points on her neocortex, shown here in red, she would laugh.
So at first they thought they were triggering some kind of laugh reflex, but no, they quickly realized they had found the points in her neocortex that detect humor, and she just found everything hilarious whenever they stimulated these points.
Well, computers are actually beginning to master human language with techniques that are similar to the neocortex.
They'll go into our brain through the capillaries and basically connect our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud providing an extension of our neocortex.
In the 2030s, if you need some extra neocortex, you'll be able to connect to that in the cloud directly from your brain.
My 300 million modules in my neocortex isn't going to cut it.
And remember what happens the last time we expanded our neocortex?
It's a quantitative expansion of neocortex, but that additional quantity of thinking was the enabling factor for us to take a qualitative leap and invent language and art and science and technology and TED conferences.
We're going to again expand our neocortex, only this time we won't be limited by a fixed architecture of enclosure.
And this is only mapping 10 percent of a mammalian neocortex.