connectome – Uncommon Descent

Human evolution Intelligent Design Neuroscience

Researchers expected the human brain to be a tangled mess and found a street map instead

Funny that the brain would be organized just as if it were the work of a skilled programmer or something …

Intelligent Design Mind Naturalism Neuroscience

The “connectome” means we may never “understand” the brain

In the sense of “There. That’s that.” It’s just too big. Machine learning might help but machines don’t explain their decisions very well. If the brain is immensely complex, it may elude complete understanding in detail. Deep Learning may survey it but that won’t convey understanding to us. We may need to look at more comprehensive ways of knowing

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