We have not yet assimilated the results of the revolutionary discoveries made over the last fifty years in neurosciences (that is to say, the group of disciplines that study the anatomy, physiology, and functioning of the central nervous sy…elementary level of animal life, and thus appears today to be one of the fundamental characteristics of living beings), a fragile brain, which depends on us as much as we depend on it—the dizzying reciprocity of reception, donation, and sus…
Jean-Pierre Changeux
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Changeux is a neuroscientist whose work on brain anatomy, physiology, and central nervous system function represents the revolutionary discoveries in neuroscience that the course readings argue we have failed to adequately assimilate into our thinking about consciousness and form. His research enables the readings to posit a "reciprocity of reception, donation, and suspension of form" between human cognition and technology—a foundational claim for understanding how AI systems might be understood not as external tools but as extensions of a fundamentally plastic, interdependent neural reality. He appears here as shorthand for the neuroscientific substrate that must ground any serious discussion of machine learning and artificial cognition within the broader framework of living systems.
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