Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains

Wow, I think about my brain a lot but it impresses me each time I learn about it!  Full of glands which literally create their own drugs to be motivated by.   As well as neurons to command those endorphin dependent muscles and active conciseness.    

Without seeing the studies, I have felt this way for years and have attempted to tell my community and audience of it. I'm happy to be able to share this now with them. Beautiful talk Daniel !!!

A major subset of movement left out of this talk... is the propensity for spoofing the system... I noticed that when he said his daughters do not lie.  70% escalation may easily be explained by that.

excellent ! Staring brick by brick vertically upwards from visual thinking to meta cognition of abstract conceptual thinking. I would wait to hear from you when you reach that level using your scientific methodology.

Not just movement... It's the universal consciousness that governs our universe

it took me 1 hr trying to understand what he really is talking replaying thousands of times every single phrase. like it or not I HATE THIS ACCENT :(

The fact that the brain is situated at the front of the animal and near sensory organs associated with feeding is telling really. For that reason alone it could be argued that brains pertain to finding food by sense and locomotion. Locomotion more importantly as sensing food would be torture if you couldn't move to reach it.

"Bayesian decision theory".

waste of time

This was interesting for the first 5 minutes

Seriously? People are using robots and University funds to study tickling?

Your children do lie lol

use your brain to swallow all the saliva, please.

I've attended a talk of him a couple of days ago and he is still using the first couple of slides that he used in this video from over 6 years ago ^.^

But if u have some thing liked locked in syndrome where you can no longer move why doesnt the brain start deteriating away? What happens there?

Convincing argument.

why do whales have such big brains?not for movement I guess...

robots now EASILY beat the champs tho. singularity inc

I don't think that it's only his accent. I mean, imagine yourself trying to give a talk with such complexity in less than 20 minutes (which seems like the amount of time they have given him), you would surely hurry speaking. But Idk, it seems like some people who are familiar with his accent haven't found difficulty understanding him, so...

Pretty boring

What about the Nerds who have only A+ and are not able to catch a ball ?

The dancing dots were listening to bobby shmurda

I learned so much from this Ted Talk. Thank you very much the creators that made this happen!

So then I can eat them

Loooool any LIFE355 students studying this

Listen to this guy talk when you’re on acid

He speaks like his theory about the brain is 100% true meanwhile neurosciences is just at the beginning of the exploration of the brain and we might not really know what are the real functions and purpose of the brain. Indeed, brain could have been made to think and meditate about the creation and therefor remember the creator.

This talk may impress neophytes, but the premise is largely pretentious nonsense. That the brain exists only to control movement is like saying the lung only exists to process air. It isn't wrong, but it is far too limiting. The bulk of the video on biometrics appears to be accurate and of academic interest or in medicine for treating mobility dysfunction, but its application to daily existence is never explained.

I seriously don’t think people sould have brainS because why would you need a brain but why would you need a brain anyways how much people use their brains why do we need brains nobody ever uses their brain. Because it’s not fine to have a brain.

so cute and learned a lot

He also have a very sharp sense of humor.

This is great the green and red combine nicely to give yellow

Humans will turn into plants, tended to by AI.

Interesting stuff from a mechanical point of view of the brain but we have such richness to our lives and his conclusions seem to be that he we are machines. We are mechanical but we are also capable of being magical

Wow. Fighting noise to type this

Chess is no even remotely close to being solved 🤣

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So I guess Stephen Hawking should've been fed his own brain to bring his existence full circle...

V fab thank you. Good luck tho in finding a future or world outside the mind.

Dopamine (ritalin) xtc explained.

Thank you for the

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Este video cambió para siempre la relación que tengo con el movimiento y también con mi profesión como kinesiólogo 🙏🏽

great