New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.
Despite their differences, pride, shame, and guilt all activate similar neural circuits, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, insula, and the nucleus accumbens. Interestingly, pride is the most powerful of these emotions at triggering activity in these regions - except in the nucleus accumbens, where guilt and shame win out. This explains why it can be so appealing to heap guilt and shame on ourselves - they're activating the brain's reward center.
I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.
Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.
the mind is a neural computer
The drives you take for granted ("I'm a heterohomosexual," "I'm attracted to childrenadults," "I'm aggressivenot aggressive," and so on) depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery.
My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.
Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.
We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.
The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience. . . The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist.
You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways.
I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.
The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.
Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.
Neural repatterning comes as we enter into and sustain new types of relationships that allow us to reregulate our sense impressions slowly and over time.
Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.
You can expand your awareness in many ways, and as you do, your brain will evolve. It will grow physically by developing new neural pathways, synaptic connections, and even new brain cells. Perhaps more importantly, it will evolve to mirror the expansion of your mind into new, creative areas.
