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Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
Wolpert's premise is that brains exist to produce movement, not thought — and from it he builds a tight tour of motor neuroscience: noise in the nervous system, Bayesian estimation, and the forward models that predict the consequences of your own actions, which is why you can't tickle yourself. Twenty minutes that reframe what a brain is for.
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