You know the wall is almost like this is the first skin, and this is the second, and there's a third, and each creates a meaning.

Where is it inside the neocortex?

So the outer part of that brain is the neocortex.

And so as the sensory input comes in and feeds from the old brain, it also goes up into the neocortex. And the neocortex is just memorizing.

Neocortex means new layer. It is a new layer on top of your brain.

Insects have a hard skin.

The fundamental law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another, and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.

Each of these neocortical columns would produce a note.

On the side here, this is temporal cortex.

These capsules are embedded in a nutrient rich jelly, a kind of second skin, which dissolves quickly and becomes baby food for the growing mushrooms.

But the real big step was the neocortex.

But there are about a million of them.

There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

A whole floor of trunks and furniture.

The lush heart note, Melaleuca bark note which does not contain any Melaleuca bark, because it s totally forbidden.

And this is just a silicon piece of skin.

And on top of it, we have this memory system called the neocortex.

And the kind of mathematics that we had for the previous skin is almost the same as what we need for the next skin.

You're flying through the cortex of my colleague's brain.

It's the pinnacle, it's the final product that the universe has produced.

So from the retina you go onto visual cortex.

The one... and only... Pinocchio!

Second, security. Third, relationships.

Second level

First thing that happened in evolution with mammals, we started to develop a thing called the neocortex.

And once you have that, you can actually begin to build the neocortical column.

We have got skin lined with this layer.

But, you know what? It's very, very regular.

It's all about cortical processing and forebrain specialization.

In other words there is still a single, simple representation of the fingertips in this most organized of cortical areas of the surface of the skin of the body.

It copied the posterior part, the back part, which is sensory, and put it in the front part.

Prefrontal cortex is an interesting brain area.

So we've got motor cortex activation up there.

And then, what I'm saying is, is that the eternal prediction is the output in the neocortex.

In fact, the neocortex in the human brain is evolving at an enormous speed.

Now it's on the third.

Now, what happens is that as we do that, as we peel these skins of the onion, and we get closer and closer to the underlying law, we see that each skin has something in common with the previous one, and with the next one. We write them out mathematically, and we see they use very similar mathematics.

There is about 20 regions of the brain that have been modeled, simulated and tested the auditory cortex, regions of the visual cortex cerebellum, where we do our skill formation slices of the cerebral cortex, where we do our rational thinking.

It takes a central cortex, if you like, to be able to orchestrate all those elements at the same time.

There literally are only a handful of equations that you need to simulate the activity of the neocortex.

And so what happens is that the new phenomena, the new skins, the inner skins of the slightly smaller skins of the onion that we get to, resemble the slightly larger ones.

She reaches into her purse and hands him a 20.

The Ordeal of Pius XII

The wiring from your sensory apparatus to those bits is shorter than the bits that have to pass through the thinky bit, the cortex.

And then, as you grow up, the cortex develops, and inhibits these latent sexual urges towards your mother.