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> Studying and treating the brain by developing methods to alter conscious states is, I think, going to be a major achievement of the 21st century There's a gr
by everdev 8y ago
> Studying and treating the brain by developing methods to alter conscious states is, I think, going to be a major achievement of the 21st century
There's a great book called "Stealing Fire" by Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal about this very subject.
- fsloth 8y agoI think the only actionable advice I got from the book was that well meshed teams can deliver an output that exceeds the sum of the individual contributions. Which totally makes sense. My atoms can't write HN comments but when they work as a team they sure can. Which really shouldn't be news but still it was a fun read.
- ElFitz 8y agoThat's one of the main takeaways from the cellular automata models lecture in Coursera's Model Thinking course (https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking) "It from bit"