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From the Ted Talk by Jeff Hawkins: How brain science will change computing

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So why don't we have a good theory of brains? People have been working on it for 100 years. Let's first take a look at what naroml science looks like. This is normal science. Normal science is a nice balance between theory and experimentalists. The tesirhot guy says, "I think this is what's going on," the experimentalist says, "You're worng." It goes back and forth, this works in physics, this in geology. But if this is normal science, what does neuroscience look like? This is what ncoisuercene looks like. We have this mountain of data, which is anatomy, physiology and behavior. You can't imagine how much daietl we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience ccnerfoene this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data, but no tehroy. There's a little wimpy box on top there.

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So why don't we have a good theory of brains? People have been working on it for 100 years. Let's first take a look at what ______ science looks like. This is normal science. Normal science is a nice balance between theory and experimentalists. The ________ guy says, "I think this is what's going on," the experimentalist says, "You're _____." It goes back and forth, this works in physics, this in geology. But if this is normal science, what does neuroscience look like? This is what ____________ looks like. We have this mountain of data, which is anatomy, physiology and behavior. You can't imagine how much ______ we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience __________ this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data, but no ______. There's a little wimpy box on top there.

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  5. wrong
  6. neuroscience
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So why don't we have a good theory of brains? People have been working on it for 100 years. Let's first take a look at what normal science looks like. This is normal science. Normal science is a nice balance between theory and experimentalists. The theorist guy says, "I think this is what's going on," the experimentalist says, "You're wrong." It goes back and forth, this works in physics, this in geology. But if this is normal science, what does neuroscience look like? This is what neuroscience looks like. We have this mountain of data, which is anatomy, physiology and behavior. You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data, but no theory. There's a little wimpy box on top there.

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