The human brain solves problems in a nearly perfect way, if you observe the biology of it from the perspective of a physicist.
Biophysicist William Bialek, the final speaker in the “Evolving Brain” series of lectures at the University of Arizona, says our brain’s ability to sort through the many sensory signals it receives and to act in an appropriate way toward them is evidence that it is working at the very limits of its physical ability.
Bialek is the only lecturer from outside the UA invited to speak in the series.
Bialek is the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics at Princeton. Bialek received the 2013 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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