Brain Size Alone Tells Us Little About Intelligence — Here’s What We Know

“The bigger the better” seems to be one of those maxims that humankind is hardwired to live by. The ...

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Brain Size Alone Tells Us Little About Intelligence — Here’s What We Know

We name things to make sense of them.
But what gets lost in the naming?

This short explores how labels simplify reality—and what becomes visible when we loosen our grip on them.

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What if one mind
can hold every perspective
without holding onto any?

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The Disordered Mind by Eric R. Kandel

What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves

Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal about human nature. This challenging study will not only help transform medical care but also encourage a new humanism based in part on the biological confirmation of individuality.

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Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work has helped shape our understanding of how learning and memory work. Building from this scientific research, Kandel explores one of the most fundamental questions we face: How does our mind, our individual sense of self, arise from the physical matter of the brain? The brain's 86 billion neurons communicate with one another through very precise connections. If those connections are disrupted, the brain processes that give rise to our mind can become disordered, resulting in diseases...

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

—Sigmund Freud

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When thoughts fall silent,
what’s left?

Pure awareness is not as an idea, but as something you can notice directly when the mind stops clinging to memory, identity, and interpretation.

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Perhaps the most (in)famous and illustrious American computer scientist and acknowledged principal pioneer of the discipline now known as artificial intelligence (AI), Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT, once pronounced—a belief he still holds—that ‘‘the brain is merely a meat machine.’’ It is significant that the English language distinguishes between ‘‘flesh’’ on the one hand, and ‘‘meat’’ on the other. The latter is dead and may be eaten, thrown in the garbage, fed to pigs, and so on. Flesh, on the other hand, is living matter and, as such, deserves the respect and dignity for life of which, among others, Albert Schweitzer spoke eloquently. The word ‘‘merely’’ in Minsky’s sentence means essentially ‘‘nothing but,’’ that is, also not deserving unusual respect. His statement is a clear reflection of a profound contempt for life that, as I see it, is shared explicitly by important sectors of the AI community, the artificial intelligentsia, as well as many scientists, engineers, and ordinary people. Daniel C. Dennett, an important American philosopher, once said that we must give up our awe of life if we are to make further progress in AI.

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What if your thoughts are shaping how your body feels—moment to moment?

This short invites you to notice the connection between thought, action, and inner peace versus suffering—not as a theory, but as something you can observe directly.

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Harmony isn’t abstract.
It shows up in how thoughts shape experience.

This short invites you to observe the difference between love-driven and selfish thinking—directly.

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Computer theorists thus form a neo-mechanistic school of philosophy. Their tenacious defense of some grossly exaggerated claims of what computers can and will do is more understandable if we realize that they represent a school of metaphysics.

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