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Neuroscience & the brain videos

Brain videos can jump from a molecule to a person’s behavior without explaining the steps between them. These starting points distinguish an introduction to behavioral biology from research on information processing outside the nervous system.

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Sapolsky’s opening lecture is the better choice for a broad framework that resists explaining behavior with one biological category. Levin’s research presentation asks a narrower and less familiar question about bioelectric organization in living tissue. Use the first to map levels of explanation; use the second to examine where a computational vocabulary is being extended. Evidence that cells coordinate development is not, by itself, evidence that every tissue has human-like experience or intention.

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The lectures reflect their recording periods. Metaphors such as computation, memory and intelligence need operational definitions before being treated as interchangeable with human cognition.

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