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the magic trick where three pounds of wet tissue convinces itself it's a self.
means The mental processes of acquiring, processing, storing, and using knowledge — thinking, knowing, perceiving, and remembering.
from From Latin cognitio, 'a getting to know, acquaintance,' from cognoscere 'to get to know, recognize' — built from co- (an intensifier here) plus gnoscere 'to know,' which springs from the same ancient Indo-European root *gno- that gives us 'know,' 'gnosis,' 'notice,' and 'recognize.' Latin handed it to English by way of Old French, where it has meant 'the act of knowing' since the late Middle Ages.
- power draw
- brain runs your entire mind on twenty watts
- hidden lag
- you act before you consciously decide to
- made-up gaps
- vision invents detail to fill your blind spot
- limited slots
- working memory holds about four things at once
- prediction engine
- the brain mostly guesses, then corrects on error
the split-brain experiments — roger sperry's 1960s studies showing each hemisphere of severed corpus callosums operated independently
london taxi driver hippocampus — eleanor maguire's 2003 study finding enlarged posterior hippocampi in drivers who memorized 'the knowledge'