The Bit Player (2018)

Kaliswa Brewster: Michelle

Quotes 

• Michelle : I heard that one of your later papers proved that you could make a reliable circuit from unreliable components. Do you think this might have applications for the brain?

  Claude Shannon : [chuckles]  I hope so. I mean, the brain can suffer all kinds of damage and still handle things pretty well, which means there must be redundancy. The fact that the brain has ten billion neurons probably means it was cheaper for biology to just make more components that to figure out sophisticated circuits. Trying to work out all the different connections would be astronomical, impossible, but if we can find patterns, well, there may be ways to simplify things.