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Top Tech Voices Podcast S2 E3: Neuro-Tech and Brain Interfaces

JoRatcliffe

Episode Three of Top Tech Voices is here and it’s all about neuro-tech with Anil Seth - professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience. 

Grab a coffee, tea, beverage of your choice, and watch/listen in on your preferred platform to a conversation exploring: 

  • Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) - the developments realistically around the corner, and what is just science fiction (for now, at least!) 
  • How to train your brain to improve your mindfulness and attention span 
  • The idea that perhaps everything we experience is a controlled hallucination… 

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  • I think of consciousness as the awareness that a memory is a memory, but I don't dwell on trying  to define it better. That is a murky rabbit hole.

    I find it curious that when recalling a phone number for example, I don't picture the numbers, the number just shows up in my speech buffer ready to be spoken.

    I don't know if it works like this for others.

    I don't know if I am just weird, but I have found that my brain seems to often work differently from other people I know.

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  • I think of consciousness as the awareness that a memory is a memory, but I don't dwell on trying  to define it better. That is a murky rabbit hole.

    I find it curious that when recalling a phone number for example, I don't picture the numbers, the number just shows up in my speech buffer ready to be spoken.

    I don't know if it works like this for others.

    I don't know if I am just weird, but I have found that my brain seems to often work differently from other people I know.

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  • in reply to dougw
    dougw said:
    the number just shows up in my speech buffer ready to be spoken.

    There are many animals with levels of intelligence that approach our own such as apes, pigs and corvids... but it's our language that gives us an advantage.  Specifically what is often cited is that language provides a means to cooperate in social structures and pass down knowledge from generation to generation.... but probably even more important is the role language plays in helping us with executive functions.  Whenever we carry out a new sequence of tasks more often than not we are verbalizing each step in our head... like the phone number in your speech buffer.... for phone numbers I think I recall from my speech buffer as well but I find it reassuring to see the numbers on my screen as I enter them.... of course this wasn't the case when I was a kid because there were no digital displays.

  • in reply to dang74

    I dunno that octopi or whales or walruses dont pass on tribal knowledge, they may not value sharing info based on fishing net avoidance or family history , but more on catching the best flavored dinner.  :-) 

  • in reply to robogary

    Whales I believe do have the means to communicate through sound.  Whether or not they have the variety in their vocal range to support a rich and varied language is another thing.  Wales and crows are held back by their lack of limbs.  Opposable thumbs are among our gifts.