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The Guardian, which never these days sees an AI hype story it doesn't like, gave the most Guardian headline.

A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom.

Should we be worried? Cortical Labs is branching out.

The National University of Singapore just set up a rack of 20 CL1s with 16 million human neurons.

I think you're not supposed to ask that sort of question.

Just marvel at the potential to do something.

This is the magical approach to AI, where you come up with a magic-sounding machine, a neural net, or a transform model, or actual human brain cells on a chip, and you just make it bigger and bigger, and you just wait for the magic to just happen.

This approach has not generated a lot of magic so far, but it's a very tempting approach and I expect to see more of it.

But let's put that aside for a moment.

Last year, startled scientists reported that the average human brain they studied contained roughly the weight of a plastic spoon in microplastics and nanoplastics.

So it's basically a

brain basically have a plastic spoons worth of plastic in my brain.

What's the other one? It's stereotyping and profiling.

And those things are natural human things to do, right? Because that's a natural human thing to do.

It's when... it's when organizations practice those things that now becomes different but the natural moment is if we see a person our brains are trained to pick up information and data and if this doesn't look like it's good for us our brain like terminator is like oh that's not going to go to the left and it is about sorting data and what is supposed to be positive and what's negative and your brain just sorts it out and we can't feel we cannot feel guilty for doing what human brains do for safety and for, because human brains have to, we have to sort out information.

We have to know like that, you know, like the car is coming from the left, the car is coming from the right, like cross the street on this.

You're sorting, we continually, this computer of a brain is continually sorting out information and trying to find out what to do with it.

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You're into the lofty stuff, the stuff that makes you dig deep and think high and broad and wide.

The magnificence of God and how we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

And what is a soul? Why do we have souls? And were we pre-wired in some Darwinian explanation to believe in the existence of God? Or is there something more powerful than that? And can science support our perspective? All of this stuff is addressed in the brand new book, God on the Brain, What Cognitive Science Does and Does Not Tell Us About Faith, Human Nature, and the Divine.

Dr. Bradley Sickler is Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Program Director for the Master of Arts in Theological Studies Program at the University of Northwestern St. Paul, Minnesota.

So I'm going to take everything apart, study to the smallest molecule and understand what the brain is doing.

And that worked for a very long time.

Now we are getting huge volumes and volumes of data about Brain waves and people and like communication, like if right now we put headsets on each other, we can kind of see how our brain waves sync or not sync and so on.

And people are realizing that it's not enough to break things apart, but you have to kind of think about the whole, the brains as a whole.

And the only way

The neuroscience of magic.

There's also the neuroscience of Tarot.

There is, you know, follow Siddharth on, you know, YouTube where, you know, we barely even touched or scratched the surface, but he actually on his YouTube channel at Brain Mystic, like, subscribe, go over there because he's actually walking us through these little soundbites and and helping us work through this understanding of the neuroscience of the brain, and then as well as your website, brainmystic.com. Is there any final words that we didn't go into that maybe you want to share with the audience?

I'm not going to go through the whole thing, but if you were interested in doing this, this is one of the absolute best visualizations that I've seen.

And keep in mind that these neural nets, they're kind of an abstraction of the human brain.

They're kind of modeled after how the floating combination of fat and proteins in your very own head, how that behaves.

Was that too weird of a way of explaining it? It, it, it's your brain.

I also believe that this will help us understand human psychology a lot more over time because a lot of these things, boy, do they seem like they're emergent.

Uh, just as we're scaling these things up and making them do, you know, quote unquote, "smart things," these sort of things pop up, and they do seem like they're very similar to what exists in the human brain.

Mm-hmm.

So already we're seeing like, like, doesn't that kind of hint at the fact that, okay, so this, this is an emergent property of the human brain as well? Most likely.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, and, okay, so and even to go a little further, like not just that a thing emerges, it's like a thing emerges in a context that's sort of always changing, like water going down a river.

And, like, whether you trust it or not, or if you think that's actually, like, a way to, to, to figure it out, it's up for debate, but it was an interesting piece of research.

research.That is interesting.

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Today's guest has spent his career doing something very few people on earth ever will, holding the human brain in his own hands.

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It's the super intelligence, okay? It's not a person, although it is kind of an entity because it is every person on the planet.

[lip smack] But it, it, it is this entity with like digital, digital one of billions of human brains at its disposal, and that one of billions is you.

It, it, it is every brain that is connected to it.

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