This month, we’re shifting our focus to look at the most intelligent, flexible, efficient, and complex supercomputer in the world: the human brain. Despite the tantalizing promises of science fiction, no one has yet been able to create an A.I. with comparable complexity—one that would not just execute commands but also think, feel, and understand the world the way that humans do. There is still so much we do not understand about the brain and how its physiology connects with our thoughts, feelings, and actions. How can a 3-pound blob of fatty neurons explain all of the weird, wonderful, scary,…
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