Edward Boyden Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Cells, Brain

  "Ed Boyden: The brain is like a computer, and we can fix it with nanorobots". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

• I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Epilepsy, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

  Edward Boyden

  Law, Computer, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in our abilities to think about things, maybe we can engineer in a computer more advanced intelligences that can help augment our ability to think.

  Edward Boyden

  Thinking, Gaps, Helping

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.

  Edward Boyden

  Ideas, Years, Information

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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