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.

So it works. But not only that, if you think about how natural selection works, then it turns out that natural selection would only make sense in such a relational universe.

An interesting theory.

You want to not only synthesize the very large and the very small, but we want to understand the very complex.

That's the principle objective.

And here, at TED, for the first time, I'd like to share with you how we're addressing one theory there are many theories one theory of how the brain works.

Because, basically, I work as a theoretical physicist.

And let me just summarize. So the bottom line the brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.

Three or four of us, in 1957, put forward a partially complete theory of one of these forces, this weak force.

But the first theory is it must be the shape.

I think that generally an 'agnostic' would be the most correct description of my state of mind.

As a result, Glimcher is skeptical of prevailing economic theory, and is seeking a physical basis for it in the brain. He wants to transform soft utility theory into hard utility theory by discovering the brain mechanisms that underlie it.

One of the other predictions of string theory no, that's not one of the other predictions of string theory.

37. Electronic commerce is a domain where the neo Ricardian theory of international trade finds its first real life applicability transaction costs are minimal, and information is symmetrical and widely accessible.

And it's more recently a unifying way to think about how the brain deals with uncertainty.

So a very compelling theory that's really mainstream physics.

I have a theory.

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In our era, a new approach to unify the laws of physics is being pursued by physicists such as myself, many others around the world, it's called superstring theory, as you were indicating.

First of all, it's going to be a theory about memory.

And there was a little an interesting theory about abstraction.

This is another case where a theoretical paradigm in biology really worked was the germ theory of disease.

That's one theory that might be able to describe all of nature's forces from one set of ideas, one set of principles, one master equation, if you will.

It is not a theory.

And number two does this theory really work in detail, when you try to apply it to the world around us?

A theory is something that enables you to do less work.

Polarization is like extrapolation, an already obsolete theory.

And that s a perfectly reasonable theory in the sense that almost everything else in biology works by shape.

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Richard Feynman compared the accuracy of quantum theories experimental predictions to specifying the width of North America to within one hair's breadth of accuracy.

We express these things mathematically.

And you can get an intuitive appreciation for this if you imagine just the people at the perimeter of the network.

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In space, we observe that such a new observation that has not been observed before, which cannot be explained or illustrated by existing theories,

In fact, there is a new theory of autism called the intense world theory, which suggests that the neocortical columns are super columns.

It was due to a Russian mathematical physicist, and it was a complicated theory.

So why don't we have a good theory of brains?

It's just a quick introduction to game theory.

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All right, I'll tell you. A friend of mine's got a funny theory.

I mean that we have mathematically consistent theories that were actually introduced to explain a completely different phenomenon, OK, things that I haven't even talked about, that each predict the existence of a very weakly interacting, new particle.

So, what would happen if I showed up at a physics conference and said, String theory is bogus.

This theory and others like it are long shots.

But what about the second question that I asked does the theory actually work when you try to apply it to the real world?

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