Computers have been a game-changer, allowing humanity to outsource many of its brain-related tasks and better function as a single organism. But there’s one kind of brain labor computers still can’t quite do. Thinking.

Computers can compute and organize and run complex software—software that can even learn on its own. But they can’t think in the way humans can. The Human Colossus knows that everything it’s built has originated with its ability to reason creatively and independently—and it knows that the ultimate brain extension tool would be one that can really, actually, legitimately think. It has no idea what it will be like when the Computer Colossus can think for itself—when it one day opens its eyes and becomes a real colossus—but with its core goal to create value and push technology to its limits, the Human Colossus is determined to find out.

Knowledge works like a tree. If you try to learn a branch or a leaf of a topic before you have a solid tree trunk foundation of understanding in your head, it won’t work. The branches and leaves will have nothing to stick to, so they’ll fall right out of your head.

The Brain/Bộ não

Outer layers

• wow this is just fk cool
• dura matter/màng cứng ("hard mother"): firm, rugged, waterproof layer, as sensitive as your face skin, why we have bad headaches? → prob pressure on or confusions in the dura
• arachnoid matter/màng nhện ("spider mother"): a layer of skin and then an open space with these stretchy-looking fibers → Those fibers stabilize the brain in position so it can’t move too much, and they act as a shock absorber when your head bumps into something.
• pia matter/màng mềm ("soft mother): a fine, delicate layer of skin that’s fused with the outside of the brain. You know how when you see a brain, it’s always covered with icky blood vessels? Those aren’t actually on the brain’s surface, they’re embedded in the pia.

• the most complex known object in the universe - u bettt

<aside> 🎓 The brain: one of the most information-dense, structured, and self-structuring matter known

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• operates on 20 watts of power
• what the brain looks like in our head