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John Gald

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“Exactly. Yeah. And so if ignited assembly of neurons are somehow what we are, then we have no idea what we are or what it is we are supposed to be doing. And so when I think about that paragraph, I mean, this stuff is deep. It's incredibly deep. That's kind of my thinking on those particular sentences. I'm a huge fan of his and I think that he is an incredibly deep thinker about this stuff. But I think there's a lot to be learned here. And it further illustrates the fact that this is still a working hypothesis. I mean, we're still trying to figure out a lot about consciousness.”
2020-11-01 · We Study Billionaires · TIP321: Investing & The Brain w/ John Gald (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. I mean, you know, you think about those number of sentences that you read at the beginning. And you think about all of the information that we got from that book, and I think some of the main things that we learned as we went through is that neurons act entirely outside of our knowledge, right?”
2020-11-01 · We Study Billionaires · TIP321: Investing & The Brain w/ John Gald (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sequentially communicated to others. So when I read that book, you know, I'm thinking about the passage you just read, one sentence that really stuck out with me was it was at the very end of the book and he said, as you close this book to ponder your own existence, ignited assemblies of neurons literally make up your mind. And so I remember reading that and then thinking and asking myself, well, what happened to me thinking or me making up my mind in certain situations?”
2020-11-01 · We Study Billionaires · TIP321: Investing & The Brain w/ John Gald (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the greatest challenge in neuroscience is that we still don't understand some of the basics of the central nervous system. But when you get into consciousness, I think from a lot of the reading that I've done, the dispute about the function of consciousness seems to be based on a dichotomy, either consciousness is a useless byproduct of brain activity, or we evolved it as an extra function to solve certain tasks. And I certainly think it's the latter. And I know Dr. Dehain would agree with that. Dehain argues that the function of consciousness is to transform incoming data points into a clear summary. And then that information can then be carried forward in time, manipulating”
2020-11-01 · We Study Billionaires · TIP321: Investing & The Brain w/ John Gald (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you're right, there's a lot to unpack there. And what I would say is that Stan De Hain, he's an incredibly intelligent individual. I mean, this gets down to deep philosophical stuff. I think when I initially heard you read that, I thought we're bombarded by stimuli every day. We don't know how these stimuli always affect us. Do they form strong or weak connections? Are they going to continue to be strengthened? Do they reach our consciousness or just our subconsciousness and things like what areas of the brain are involved in processing this stimuli? When I hear that particular passage and I think about claims like this, I think they can get really technical. I think claims like this, in my mind, greatly disagree with our logical understanding of ourself.”
2020-11-01 · We Study Billionaires · TIP321: Investing & The Brain w/ John Gald (Business Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT