So in order to have a conscious mind, you have a self within the conscious mind.

So there is no neuron in my brain that is the same as another, and there is no neuron in my brain that is the same as in yours.

It's blind experiments. They also gave me normal people and everything.

So Evan, choose something that you can visualize clearly in your mind.

And when you tamper with one brain system, you're going to tamper with another.

But all of this sensory information has to be processed by a brain, and yes, indeed, flies have a brain, a brain of about 100,000 neurons.

It's a new brain. You needed it.

So the first one is in the brain.

So I've looked at about 70 of these.

Typically, what you're looking at is a fixed brain. It's gray.

But diagnosing a brain disorder without actually looking at the brain is analogous to treating a patient with a heart problem based on their physical symptoms, without even doing an ECG or a chest X ray to look at the heart.

The brain is intentionally by the way, there's a shaft of nerves that joins the two halves of the brain called the corpus callosum. It's thicker in women.

A sandbag hits his head.

If you look at the first slide there, that's the temporal lobes, frontal lobes, parietal lobes, OK the lobes that constitute the brain.

As the baby hears a word in her language the auditory areas light up, and then subsequently areas surrounding it that we think are related to coherence, getting the brain coordinated with its different areas, and causality, one brain area causing another to activate.

I'm offering the metaphor of a staircase in the mind.

There's a blade here that's going to cut across a section of the tissue and transfer it to a microscope slide.

You will be a creative soldier... once you get all this thinking knocked out of you.

Each neuron is connected via synapses to up to 10,000 other neurons in your brain.

This is the word side of my brain.

To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly.

Now if there's a gut brain, we should also learn to talk with this brain.

We're taking over a thousand samples for each brain.

And what they've done here is they've put electrodes in its ganglia and its brain and then a transmitter on top, and it's on a big computer tracking ball.

So together they form a map for the rest of the brain, telling the brain continually, Where am I now within my environment?

This first project is called the AlloBrain.

And that brain is learning at warp speed.

Can the brain build such a perception?

One more mind will be unlocked.

So roughly, we have 50 million data points for a given human brain.

And the idea is to establish a baseline or normal state for his brain, because every brain is different.

But what it means to have a brain there is that, not only the big brain has to talk with the food, the food has to talk with the brain, because we have to learn actually how to talk to the brains.

This is actually a brainwave sensor that's reading the electrical activity of my brain as I give this talk.

Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

And a neuron, well, that's smaller than brain.

There's another simulation of the cerebellum that's more than half the neurons in the brain again, works very similarly to human skill formation.

So what I'm going to talk about is why we don't have a good brain theory, why it is important that we should develop one and what we can do about it.

And this is a very heady place.

In fact, one of the most important was a brain region that becomes active when you feel the rush of cocaine.

We cope with this pressure by having brains, and within our brains, decision making centers that I've called here the Actor.

A program called Brain Electrical Activity Mapping then triangulates the source of that abnormality in the brain.

Australopithecus had a tiny little pea brain.

So the human brain has about a hundred billion neurons in it.

We need to reach a target inside the brain.

That's the way it is. A thousand questions on your mind... yet you can't think of anything to ask.