Those that control eye movement have evolved simply to direct your gaze to the darkest and brightest objects in the world.
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Deep in the history of our species, we behaved in this automatic way but eventually we evolved higher levels of brain machinery that enabled us to control these reptilian urges.
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Arising out of the midbrain is the limbic system, a network that controls emotions and drives such as aggression and sex. This has been called the ‘reptilian brain’ because it controls the sorts of functions we share with lizards and snakes.
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Everything you experience is processed into patterns of neural activity that form your mental life. You are living in your own Matrix.
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It can do several tasks simultaneously using the same neurons
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He proved that any pattern, no matter how complicated, could be broken down into a series of on and off states distributed across a network.
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He showed that if you connect up a large number of simple switches that could be either ‘on’ or ‘off’, then you can create a binary code,
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This binary code is the foundation for every modern computer language. It is also the same principle operating in every living organism that has a nervous system.
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Holding another’s brain in your hands for the first time is the closest to a spiritual experience I have ever had. It makes you feel humble and mortal at the same time.
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complexity can emerge if you have enough simple elements communicating with each other.