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Episode 44: The Brain, Spontaneous Fluctuations, and AI


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What if current efforts to produce human-level artificial intelligence are fatally misguided? We discuss new research which suggests current AI practices fail to take into account the 95% of brain activity which takes the form of "spontaneous fluctuations" which are not clearly tied to anything in the mind or the body.

 

Salon articles:

https://www.salon.com/2021/04/30/why-artificial-intelligence-research-might-be-going-down-a-dead-end/?fbclid=IwAR0Wdjpk9Tlf8dp_bW8_2f5wN_KQt7oAzqJci7QcU_gcs66IyDl4cdRSOco

 

https://www.salon.com/2021/02/20/most-brain-activity-is-background-noise-cognitive-flux-consciousness-brain-activity-research/

 

Neutral Networks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk

 

Neurotransmitters and Nueromodulators: https://www.britannica.com/science/nervous-system/Neurotransmitters-and-neuromodulators

 

Neurons can change their own DNA: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/landmark-study-shows-brain-cells-revamp-their-dna-make-new-proteins-perhaps-sparking

 

Robin Carhart-Harris article on psychedelics: 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028390818301175

 

Harmonic series (Andrew Huang video): https://youtu.be/Wx_kugSemfY

 

You need to vibrate higher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnsI67bHpmk

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