The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron - Rodrigo Quian Quiroga Audiobook
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If we lose our memories, are we still ourselves? Is identity merely a collection of electrical impulses? What separates us from animals, or from computers?
From Plato to Westworld, these questions have fascinated and befuddled philosophers, artists, and scientists for centuries. In The Forgetting Machine, neuroscientist Rodrigo Quiroga explains how the mechanics of memory illuminates these discussions, with implications for everything from understanding Alzheimer’s disease to the technology of artificial intelligence.
You’ll also learn about the research behind what Quiroga coined “Jennifer Aniston neurons” - cells in the human brain that are responsible for representing specific concepts, such as recognizing a certain celebrity’s face. The discovery of these neurons opens new windows into the workings of human memory.
In this accessible, fascinating look at the science of remembering, you’ll learn how we turn perceptions into memories, how language shapes our experiences, and the crucial role forgetting plays in human recollection. You’ll see how electricity, chemistry, and abstraction combine to form something more than the human brain - the human mind. And you’ll gain surprising insight into what our brains can tell us about who we are.
The Forgetting Machine takes us on a journey through science and science fiction, philosophy, and identity, using what we know about how we remember (and forget) to explore the very roots of what makes us human.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 4.8/5
June 21st, 2021
Thank you!
June 21st, 2021
The One With Jennifer Aniston’s Neuron.
June 21st, 2021
I do hope it really answers the question: If we lose our memories, are we still ourselves? Is identity merely a collection of electrical impulses? What separates us from animals, or from computers?
Looks like an interesting read/listen.
Thank you.
June 22nd, 2021
@murph - Ah, the metaphysical identity paradox of Trigger’s Broom; known to lowly plebs as the Ship of Theseus conundrum.
June 22nd, 2021
…also, memory is state-dependent, so just get drunk again & it’ll all come back; you’ll remember her name, etc.
June 24th, 2021
The only sort of equivalence is “functional” equivalence, that is equivalent with respect to something else. “1+2″ and “6-3″ are not the same internally, composed from entirely different symbols, but “1+2 = 6-3″ is still true. Objects are emergent patterns, as recognised by a pattern-recogniser i.e. computer. If the recogniser (Trigger) accepts it as the same object (Broom) then it is (with respect to Trigger), no matter how many stray atoms are gained or lost along the way. And to someone who disagrees, failing to recognise it as the same, it is not the same. Every answer is a correct one, with respect to the recogniser doing the answering.
There are no absolute truths apart from base physical law, and humans have yet to figure out what that law may be, all making due with emergent synchrony and fuzzy approximates.
June 24th, 2021
Thank you!!
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