(As I’m sure JFG would also say, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science isn’t that complicated – we have tried to make it more so than it is. Operationally, the brain turns out to be relatively simple. But between bio chemistry, synapses, dendrites, axons, neurons, layers within columns, micro columns, inter-column connectivity, macro-columns, columnar regions, and the tendency for neurons to migrate to then connect to whatever is possible whenever possible, and the sexual division of temporal labor, expressed as a hemispheric division of labor, it turns out that we were looking for something complicated when the answer was quite simple. Evolution used bilateralism to specialize for sexes and sexes by time, leading the brain as a system of prediction by either feminine empathizing in time or masculine systematizing over time. And even our personality traits (big5/6) are just biases in the before, during, and after state of information processing – again, biased by sex differences in time responsibility. What I have found (and I was happy Musk repeated yesterday in the context of AI) we will feel really silly when in retrospect it becomes clear just how simple intelligence is, just as in my work I’ve explained how simple the universe at every scale is.)
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