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Brain Evolution And Information Explosion

Brain Evolution And Information Explosion

This information explosion has got me thinking. When we want a particular piece of information, we have to search for hours. When we do not want something, we are flooded with millions of them. So I decided to show a link between the human brain and the current information explosion, that has led the information overload.  This Sanjoy Sanyal, Professor and Course Director of Neuroscience in the Caribbean  Part of this PPTX is based...

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Sanjoy Sanyal
Sanjoy Sanyal (Administrator)
8 years ago

This information explosion has got me thinking. When we want a particular piece of information, we have to search for hours. When we do not want something, we are flooded with millions of them. So I decided to show a link between the human brain and the current information explosion, that has led the information overload. 

This Sanjoy Sanyal, Professor and Course Director of Neuroscience in the Caribbean 

Part of this PPTX is based on the work of Professor Rudolph Hanka of University of Cambridge. 

Educational Value: Shows relation between human learning capacity and information load in today's digital era of information plethora 

Tags: digital storage, human brain, information explosion, information overload, neural connectivity, neurons, sanjoy sanyal, synapse

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