In this video I walk you through real donated human brains to explore how the nervous system actually looks and works. I ...

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The human brain's soft folds and ridges, arising in early development and continuing through the first 18 months of life, are a visual icon for intelligence itself. Peeling back the layers of this ...

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To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...

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