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- adjective Of or pertaining to the neocortex.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
neocortex
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- adjective of or relating to the neocortex of the cerebrum
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Examples
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Obama views himself as the neocortical leader -- the defender, not just of the stimulus package and health care reform but also of cognitive reasoning.
Other Comments Steve Forbes 2010
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For Gerson, Obama is the arrogant, "neocortical president" who blames his problems on those idiot Americans who are too stupid to think clearly in these difficult times.
Gerson is wrong on Obama's 'snobbery' Katrina vanden Heuvel 2010
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The neocortical presidency destroys the possibility of political dialogue.
Other Comments Steve Forbes 2010
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Obama views himself as the neocortical leader -- the defender, not just of the stimulus package and health care reform but also of cognitive reasoning.
Other Comments Steve Forbes 2010
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“The thing about the neocortical column is that you can think of it as an isolated processor,” Blue Brain Project founder Henry Markram of the Brain and Mind Institute at the École Polytechnique (EPFL) in Lausanne, recently told BBC News.
Be safe out there! ewillett 2009
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The neocortical presidency destroys the possibility of political dialogue.
Other Comments Steve Forbes 2010
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His floral brain was so active that it produced a sort of neocortical honey.
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It took less than two years for the Blue Brain supercomputer to accurately simulate a neocortical column, which is a tiny slice of brain containing approximately 10,000 neurons, with about 30 million synaptic connections between them.
On sociopathy and fecundity amuchmoreexotic 2008
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We should be championing that as a victory for neocortical moral progress and transhumanist aspirations to improve on the evolved brain, and not simply throwing up our hands in relativistic resignation.
Mike Treder - Moral Relativism vs. Moral Authority William Harryman 2009
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What it learns and what it can do are determined by the size of the neocortical sheet, what senses the sheet is connected to, and what experiences it is trained on.
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