Quotes by Henry Markram - Page 1

People are afraid of detail and complexity.
Henry Markram / Professor
Complexity
Detail
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I was always interested in curing the brain.
Henry Markram / Professor
Curing
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As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.
Henry Markram / Professor
Scientists
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There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.
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Resources
Disposal
Scientists
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The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.
Henry Markram / Professor
Best Way
Build
Works
Figure
Scratch
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99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.
Henry Markram / Professor
Percent
Eyes
Infer
Room
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Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.
Henry Markram / Professor
Discovery
Effects
Expensive
Terribly
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A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
Henry Markram / Professor
Basic Research
Brain
Brain Cells
Cells
Drug
Human Brain
Meticulous
Research
Trials
Basic
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Virtual
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You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.
Henry Markram / Professor
Perception
Symphony
Universe
Produces
Stimulate
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We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.
Henry Markram / Professor
Brain
Cities
Pathways
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We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.
Henry Markram / Professor
Brain
Size
Streets
Map
Piece
We Cannot
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Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That's what the neocortical column looks like.
Henry Markram / Professor
Imagine
Looks
Squeezing
Column
Essentially
Forest
Trees
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The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble.
Henry Markram / Professor
Brain
Certainty
Projects
Universe
Within
Version
Bubble
Builds
Perceptual
Therefore
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Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table?
Henry Markram / Professor
Brain
Cognitive
Behavioural
Functions
Genetic
Mathematicians
Structured
Table
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All evidence indicates that the neuron does not reset. The synapses do not reset. They are always different. They're changing every millisecond. Your brain today is very, very different from what it was when you were 10 years old, and yet you may have profound memories from when you were 10.
Henry Markram / Professor
Brain
Evidence
Memories
Profound
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Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition.
Henry Markram / Professor
Agree
Attention
Brain
Capable
Consciousness
Enormous
Obvious
Perception
Recognition
Remarkable
Explanations
Basic
Less
Emotions
Phenomena
Number
Generating
In The End
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