How spontaneous brain activity keeps you alive - Nathan S. Jacobs
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The wheels in your brain are constantly turning, even when you're asleep or not paying attention. In fact, most of your brain’s activities are ones you’d never be aware of … unless they suddenly stopped. Nathan S. Jacobs takes us inside the always active, surprisingly spontaneous brain.
Fast-forward a few hundred years into the future, where you are a student in a neuroscience lab. Your research project is to make a conscious, fully aware robot that is as intelligent and flexible as a human (or better). In the design of your robot, would you include spontaneous, automatic functions that the “conscious” part of the robot couldn’t control? What sorts of automatic functions would you include?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Nathan S. Jacobs
- Director Hector Herrera
- Producer Pazit Cahlon
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Addison Anderson
