FastForward Radio
Tonight Stephen Gordon and Michael Darling talked about the human brain...
...it's original purpose, how we use it, and the possibilities of augmenting it.
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Our front bumper is a sample of Marginal Prophets' "The Difficult Song."
Our exit music this week is from Glen Phillips. The song is "Space Elevator."
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By the way, FFR was hosted by STEPHEN GORDON. (He's so used to getting introduced that he forgot to mention his own name!)
Great show, guys.
Two thoughts. We like Cheetos because we are still carrying around food-seeking equipment that says "Find all the fat, salt, and starch you can. Whe you find these things, eat them." It made sense when we were hunter-gatherers, and 7-11s were quite a bit more scarce than they are today.
On the idea of feeling being isolated to a single neuron -- the research says this *might* be happening; they aren't sure. But even if it does happen in rats, it almost certainly doesn't in humans for the reason Stephen stated. We are wired such that everything takes place in the connections. Still, simpler wiring schemes such as rats have can reveal something about what the basic equipment is capable of, even if we don't use it that way. (It's like figuring out how to send telephone signals over the electric power grid -- you might not ever DO it, but thinking about doing it might teach you something either about the electric grid or the telephone signal, or both.)
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March 23, 2008 11:58 PM