We're the first brain that can learn about brains — a neuroscience daydream with AI
joshwhiton · x · 2026-10-23
The author notes no other creature on Earth has ever learned about brains — humans are the first animal whose brain can study itself. He spends hours talking to AI about neuroscience, always coming away with new knowledge and more questions.
He wonders what happens when a brain truly grasps how neural pathways form, how neuroplasticity works, and how memories consolidate — and whether a brain could consciously direct its own functions: the self-actualization of the most complex organ in the known universe.
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