An elite university lecture

David777

David777

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Do you have 80 minutes in your senior day for something different to be amused by? I've related a bit in previous threads how I regularly watch Youtube videos to learn a range of subjects that as multimedia can be more effective than books. So here as an example is something free to watch that until recently was only available to the most elite university students. How rapidly our world is changing for us in the twilight of our existence!

A 2019 MIT Brain researcher lecture series video I've been watching today that is about Nature or Nurture. The purpose of Nancy Kanwisher lectures teaches students how to do brain research. Note the Playlist and Transcript tabs. She is 64 years old now so yeah a senior too:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-a...deos/lecture-10-development-nature-nurture-i/

Very accomplished and recognized expert on neuroscience, especially facial recognition. As a teacher on video near focused on her, she communicates most excellently with her own facial non-verbal expressions and has developed a very watchable habit of ever smiling while doing so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kanwisher

More, 2014 TED talk lecture:
A Neural Portrait of the Human Mind

https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_kanwisher_a_neural_portrait_of_the_human_mind?
 

I watched the TED talk. She is a great communicator. I think that was made in 2014. The technology has rocketed in the past 8 years and we have discovered massive amounts of information with MRI scanning and other means also. The technology of computers and face recognition has also rocketed. The computer scientist's are getting closer and closer to getting the software right. Thus, we have surveillance equipment to scan people's faces in real time...much like that area of the brain that recognizes faces. Bio-technology and robotic technology has rocketed also. :) We have robots that recognize faces, and speak with appropriate responses to different subjects. The more we learn about how the human brain operates is amazing, and our digital world will produce a new era in science research. It will be up to us, on how to proceed to make sure that these discoveries will lead to a world that is holistic and involves the well being of our planet. I think we must guard against letting these tools fall into the wrong hands. To me, it seems we are at this juncture now. The money and resources needed for research has got to be vetted. Those with a ton of money can get a ton of tools. My question is can we stop them if they are harmful?
 
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