On the Parallel-ity of the Brain

One might here consider the image of a turbulent mass of vortices in a stream. The structure and distribution of vortices, which constitute a sort of content of the description of the movement, are not separate from the formative activity of the flowing stream, which creates, maintains, and ultimately dissolves the totality of vortex structures. So to try to eliminate the vortices without changing the formative activity of the stream would evidently be absurd.~David Bohm, Wholeness and The Implicate Order

This article speak to a memorandum by John Nash, in regard to what can effectively be understood as a crude design for AI (its not really crude):

It is interesting to consider what a thinking machine will be like. It seems clear that as soon as the machines become able to solve intellectual problems of the highest difficultly which can be solve by humans they will be able to solve most of the problems enormously faster than a human

In closing, the human brain is a highly parallel setup. It has to be.

I am unapologetic to the readers, but if you want the proper context it can be found here

There is also related reading here and here.

The basic understanding I mean to portray here, is that our core beliefs are not necessarily held in a region of the brain. We get here by understanding the process of evolution, in regard to accidental stability (which is related to self interested actors), but it is critically helpful to understand the brain as if it was designed through incredible reason and foresight (this happens because the accidental evolution took a (relatively) very long time).

From this view of design, it is important that the core beliefs are not stored in a certain region because that region could get accidentally knocked out, and the brain would be completely unable to re-ground itself.

So there is the suggestion that our core beliefs, are actually held up TACITLY. Not from a certain region, but by the processes in which the regions interact.

This is the real insight that John Nash had, in regard to the parallel-ity of the brain.
It is parallelism that that allows the brain to be damaged but to continue on, and regain the function that it does.

This speaks to not only the importance of the strength of its neural networks (much like the immutability of bitcoin) but more specifically and importantly, it speaks to the difficulty of changing our own core beliefs.