Really cool talk / highly recommend! Some things you might learn / amazing facts:
- Children 7-11 can regrow fingertips
- Planarians (a kind of flatworm) are immortal
- If you teach a planarian to find "home", chop off its head and let it regrow its brain, it will still remember where home is
Note also that this was presented at NeurIPS so the talk also includes some discussion of non-neural information systems this kind of thing could inspire.
Really cool talk / highly recommend! Some things you might learn / amazing facts:
- Children 7-11 can regrow fingertips
- Planarians (a kind of flatworm) are immortal
- If you teach a planarian to find "home", chop off its head and let it regrow its brain, it will still remember where home is
Note also that this was presented at NeurIPS so the talk also includes some discussion of non-neural information systems this kind of thing could inspire.