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  2. The Big Brain Theory - Wikipedia

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    The Big Brain Theory is an American television show on the Discovery Channel that first aired in 2013, hosted by Kal Penn. [2] ... In addition to the full judges ...

  3. On Intelligence - Wikipedia

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    On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines is a 2004 book [1] by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee. The book explains Hawkins' memory-prediction framework theory of the brain and describes some of its consequences.

  4. Andrew Stroup - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, Stroup appeared in the first season of Discovery Channel's reality TV series The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius, [12] an engineering competition consisting of 10 contestants from across the country, which aired from May to June 2013. Each week contestants were put to the test, competing against each other in two teams to design, build ...

  5. Boltzmann brain - Wikipedia

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    The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a brain to spontaneously form in space, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.

  6. Bayesian approaches to brain function - Wikipedia

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    Friston makes the following claims about the explanatory power of the theory: "This model of brain function can explain a wide range of anatomical and physiological aspects of brain systems; for example, the hierarchical deployment of cortical areas, recurrent architectures using forward and backward connections and functional asymmetries in ...

  7. Ten-percent-of-the-brain myth - Wikipedia

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    Thereafter, James told lecture audiences that people only meet a fraction of their full mental potential, which is a plausible claim. [5] Brain Activity: Modern neuroimaging techniques, such as fMRI and PET scans, show that a wide range of brain regions are active even when we are at rest.

  8. Ned Herrmann - Wikipedia

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    This quickly evolved into a theory of stable brain quadrants, independent of brain anatomy facts, each with its own characteristic "genius". He developed the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), the scored and analyzed Participant Survey, and designed the Applied Creative Thinking Workshop (ACT), which remains a leading personality ...

  9. Human brain - Wikipedia

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    The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord, comprises the central nervous system. It consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. The brain controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sensory nervous system ...