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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku

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Key Takeaways
  1. Kaku is a theoretical physicist but believes his unique perspective can help enrich the field of neuroscience
  2. Believes that neuroscience began once Phineas Gage got a spike thorough his brain and changed personalities. First time damage to the brain had been linked with changes in behavior
  3. Speaks of the exciting things to come such as thought controlled exoskeletons for paraplegics and being able to upload your memories and consciousness
  4. Argues that we can never explain consciousness because an object cannot know itself
  5. Consciousness is a mental model of the world which uses many feedback loops with different parameters (sight, sound, etc) with the goal of surviving and thriving. Animals create a model of the world (space) but humans do it with space/time in order to plan into the future
  6. EEGPET scanTESdeep brain stimulation and optogenetics have all been and will continue to be extremely informative tests to help understand, map and analyze the brain
  7. The purpose of memory is to help predict the future
  8. Memories are not stored in one area or chronologically. They are encoded in many different areas and when we recall them they must be reassembled
What I got out of it
  1. An exciting and eye opening account of current beliefs and tests on the brain. The potential technology and applications is fascinating and also a bit daunting. Good read if you are interesting in how the brain works and some possible almost science-fiction brain-based applications
Read The Future of the Mind