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The human genome specifies the construction of our bodies in great detail, and that includes the overall design of the brain. But not all of the circuits actively develop and work as set by genes. Much of each brain's circuitry, at any given moment of adult life, is individual and unique, truly reflective of that particular organism's history and circumstances.
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Antonio Damasio
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.
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For the vast bulk of messages, in fact, symbols do not behave like fair coins. The symbol that is sent now depends, in important and predictable ways, on the symbol that was just sent: one symbol has a “pull” on the next. Take an image: Hartley showed how to measure its information content by gauging the intensity of each “elementary area.” But in images that resemble anything other than TV static, intensities are not splattered randomly across the pixels: each pixel has pull. A light pixel is more likely to appear next to a light pixel, a dark next to a dark.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
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