The new brain is actually kind of easier than the old brain.

And that's just a mouse brain it's a lot smaller than a human brain.

The old brain is still there. You still have that alligator 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.

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.

It's a little brain worm.

And I'm going to represent the neocortex here, by this box that's sticking on top of the old brain.

He didn't write Little Red Laptop Computer or Little Red Dirt Devil.

The brain could grow, but the gut actually shrunk.

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

I mean, let's let the reader do a little work.

We see, I feel like I have been at a computer all day.

You've got major cerebellar activity, which is involved in motor coordination.

Tom wants a computer small enough to easily carry.

We're also selecting for brains in which we can get the tissue, we can get consent to take the tissue within 24 hours of time of death.

By now, you might have sort of lost perspective on how large this cube of brain tissue actually is.

And for the first several hours, there was exactly one thought in my head.

And we're very careful about the brains that we do take.

And we've done, in the past four years, a proof of concept on a small part of the rodent brain, and with this proof of concept we are now scaling the project up to reach the human brain.

And we can see brain volumes up to 40 percent less in these children.

They did all of this in four hours after seeing the computer for the first time.

There's the cerebellum that's keeping you upright right now.

Australopithecus had a tiny little pea brain.

At the present time, my collaborators and I, what we're aiming for is much more modest just to find partial connectomes of tiny chunks of mouse and human brain.

Bobby is holding fantastically thin slices of a mouse brain.

And of course, when you're a little kid, there's always destruction.

It takes about a half hour for that full feeling to travel from your belly to your brain.

In fact, the processing that happens in that little piece of brain is very similar to the kind of processing that computers do when they stream video over the Internet.

I think in our minds we imagine somebody's going to take the little bottle, say, Oh, little bottle.

Kids can be full of inspiring aspirations and hopeful thinking.

It's that little voice in your head that's watching and saying, That's good. That's bad.

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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.

The average score when I'd done it with the computers and the groups was 76 percent.

And here you see a brain scan of two children one who had adequate nutrition, another, neglected and who was deeply malnourished.

But remember that this kind of brain, which is much, much smaller but this is the most common form of brain on the planet and has been for 400 million years.

And can we really do better than these primitive, small brained ancestors?

And in fact, the baby's brain seems to be the most powerful learning computer on the planet.

There's one other magic trick you need to make this all happen, and that's the ability to get light into the brain.

So I had the computer program design the short staples to do this.

So you have this little algal forest, and in the size of a laptop you can find more than 100 species of algae, mostly microscopic fit hundreds of species of little animals that then feed the fish, so that the system recovers.

See, our pattern detection device, which appears to be located in the anterior cingulate cortex it's our little detection device there can be easily fooled, and this is the problem.

The Heads of State and Government of AOSIS expressed their appreciation to the Government and People of Mauritius for the warmth and hospitality extended in hosting the International Meeting and the AOSIS Summit.

And it's this feeding back into the old brain that'll allow you to make very more intelligent decisions.

In humans, we actually developed the front part of the neocortex called the anterior part of the neocortex. And nature did a little trick.