Primate brains, because they provided the genome which expressed them a sufficient expected increase in fitness, and because their very design (stochastic neural nets) gave them practically limitless potential for improving their ability to increase fitness, kept evolving themselves bigger and smarter until they got to be complex enough to figure out that

primate brains, because they provided the genome which expressed them a sufficient expected increase in fitness, and because their very design (stochastic neural nets) gave them practically limitless potential for improving their ability to increase fitness, kept evolving themselves bigger and smarter until they got to be complex enough to figure out that

primate brains, because they provided the genome which expressed them a sufficient expected increase in fitness, and because their very design (stochastic neural nets) gave them practically limitless potential for improving their ability to increase fitness, kept evolving themselves bigger and smarter until they got to be complex enough to figure out that

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elegantbuffalo:

Variability of brain size and external topography (Javier DeFelipe).

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it’s my favorite kind of data

This image has been foveated with two different fixation points (the bee and the butterfly). This means that data far from the fixation point is at a lower resolution.

The as-yet poorly-understood attention mechanism in the human brain performs foveation on visual input, allowing us to focus on a restricted subset of our field of vision.

terminology for referring to parts of the brain

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Michaelangelo performed medical/anatomical research on cadavers, despite the ban on such practices by the Church, and the fruits of his studies are evident.

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