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The Future of the Brain Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

Gary Marcus

Including a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser An unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain,

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StarTalk Radio

It was discussed as a collection of essays about the future of the brain, recently published and soon to be released in paperback format, featuring contributions from various experts.

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It's about to come out in paperback.

— Episode: Gazing into the Future with Ray Kurzweil

Episode: Gazing into the Future with Ray Kurzweil

It was discussed as a collection of essays about the future of the brain, recently published and soon to be released in paperback format, featuring contributions from various experts.

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It's about to come out in paperback.

Episode: Cosmic Queries: Minds and Machines

The book was mentioned as being edited by Gary Marcus, and it was discussed in the context of how nanobots could theoretically alter the circuitry of the brain for memory enhancement.

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Did they make it? Or you edited that?

but right now we don't know how to read the code it's like if a computer dropped from above it would take a while there's no other computers and you had voltmeters and stuff like that you could sit there and try to figure it out but it would take a long time before you could say so that's how Microsoft Word works there's a lot of complication there

in principle there's no reason why the experiential part of it can't be encoded can't be fired in there using nanobots that change the circuitry of your brain my book The Future of the Brain there's no reason in principle why you can't do that

Episode: Gazing into the Future with Ray Kurzweil

It was discussed that the book was about to be released in paperback, and that it includes top neuroscientists discussing the future of understanding the brain.

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It's about to come out in paperback.

It has some Nobel Prize winners from a couple years ago. Christoph Koch from the Allen Brain Institute, all kinds of top people talking about the future of the brain.

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