Brain Based Enterprises

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CHAPTER 4

Intelligences for a machine-led world

While the last few decades have provided us with massive leaps in our understanding of the human brain, I suspect we will say we knew nothing in 2030 as our knowledge increases exponentially. Our desire to simplify the brain has led us up a few garden paths over the years. For example, the handy ‘shorthand’ of the left and right brain developed by Roger Sperry has been discredited, although it remains a useful shorthand for identifying the different functions that we must perform as human beings and the idea that there is some specialisation in the different parts of the brain. Much has also been made of the brain as a computer and it is an alluring simplification, yet our brains are much more ...