Perhaps one day sooner or later, people will lose all hope for free will. That day is good or bad for people. At present nobody can make it clear. Everything is still on the road. However, the end point will not be too far away...
The Birth of the Brain: An Evolutionary Story
In some people's eyes, God created this world. In the eyes of others, this world is but the most informative of the infinite number of possible parallel universes. Those uninformed, boring universes may have disappeared in the process of evolution.
The evolutionary story of human beings starts from many abstract levels. Perhaps at the beginning, the starting point of life is just an ordinary carbon atom. However, we cannot underestimate it. Because this small carbon atom is linked to each other in four different ways, thus creating a rich information structure, and then forming more and more complex molecules. As a result, physics gave birth to chemistry.
About a billion years later, another complex molecule called DNA was gradually evolved. It can encode long strings of information and compile organisms according to procedures. As a result, chemistry has spawned biology.
Since then, organisms have evolved neural systems at a rapid rate of growth—a network system for communication and decision-making. It is through this that we coordinate more and more complex physiological structures and behaviors. Neurons combine to form a nervous system that is capable of implementing intelligent behavioral brains. In this way, as the brain becomes the frontier for storing and processing information, biology has spawned neurology.
This is how humans evolved from atoms to molecules to DNA and brains.
Advanced Functions of the Brain: Talents Unique to Mankind
The mammalian brain has no function of any other kind of organism - we can think or understand the complex structure composed of many kinds of molecules according to the level. In this structure, the different molecules are arranged in the same pattern. This pattern is also a symbol at the same time, and it will later be used as a molecule in a more complex structure. This ability arises from a structure that people call the neocortex of the brain. In terms of human beings, this ability is more complex and at the same time, it has more potential. This model is defined as an idea.
Through a never-ending cycle, we can also build more complex ideas. The idea of ​​such recursive links is defined by us as cognition. The basis of cognition is that there are intellectual talents, and cognition will evolve based on its own, exponential growth, and pass on from generation to generation.
The human brain produces another level of abstract consciousness - we use the brain intelligence but also have another favorable factor - the hand. We can use our hands to make tools to control the environment. These tools represent a new form of evolution and technology emerges. It is based on these tools that our cognitive foundation has been able to develop indefinitely.
Spoken language is the first invention of mankind. It allows us to express our thoughts in different words. The subsequent written language allows us to express our ideas in different forms. The written language greatly expands our ability to support the brain without external assistance, allowing us to maintain and expand our cognitive base. This is a recursively structured idea.
Although chimpanzees can also communicate with people through simple training, their expression is almost limited to simple noun-verb statements, but they cannot express infinite expansion of complex things. This is exactly what humans are. For example, Colombian literary master Marquez once wrote a six-page story called "The Last Ghost Tour." Throughout, there is only one simple sentence!
As the level of abstract consciousness continues to increase, the human world has emerged an inherently accelerating process of evolution. The complexity and power of its products all show exponential growth. The American philosopher Kurzweil defined this phenomenon as the law of accelerated return (LOAR) and pointed out that this law is related to the evolution of biology and technology. The process of technological evolution inevitably brings about the evolution of computer capabilities, which in turn expands our cognitive base, enabling us to understand the knowledge of another field through a wide range of connections in one field. The network itself is a system that has the ability to achieve grading. The network contains a lot of knowledge while maintaining its internal structure.