If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.
I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.
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