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Brain may be irreducibly complex with no simplification

Understanding means having a compressed shorthand version of complexity such that you no longer need the details; but the brain may be a case where there is no simplification—it is its own most concise description—because if a simpler version were possible, the brain would have evolved to be simpler.

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Speaker

Jeff Lichtman

Evidence Quote

there are certain things in the world, maybe a brain as an example, where it is the most concise way. There is no simplification. If there were, the brains would've been simpler.

Source

298 | Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the BrainSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:30:16 AM

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