Understanding higher cognition in terms of brain anatomy, physiology and chemistry

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Section 1: The nature of understanding

Why we need hierarchies of description to understand anything; how we understand very complex electronic systems; the nature of understanding in the physical sciences; what understanding the brain means.

 

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Lecture 1. What it means to “understand” a complex system
  • L1-1. Understanding Complex Systems
  • L1-2 Understanding Electronic Systems
  • L1-3. Understanding in the Physical Sciences
  • L1-4. Metasimilarities between Brains and Computers
  • L1-5. Practical Pressures on System Architectures

Lectures

Lecture 1. What it means to "understand" a complex system
  • L1-1. Understanding Complex Systems
  • L1-2 Understanding Electronic Systems
  • L1-3. Understanding in the Physical Sciences
  • L1-4. Metasimilarities between Brains and Computers
  • L1-5. Practical Pressures on System Architectures

Sections

  • Section 1: The nature of understanding

  • Section 2: The phenomena of higher cognition

  • Section 3: The anatomy and physiology of the brain

  • Section 4: Architectural constraints imposed by practical considerations

  • Section 5: Evidence for the architectural constraints in the brain

  • Section 6: Understanding attention and the different types of memory

  • Section 7: Understanding higher cognition and consciousness

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