Thinking - the new science of decision making

1 The normal well-tempered mind (Daniel Dennett)

deconstruction technique is usually applied to understand the Mind. Break stuff down until simple structures are found that can be replaced by machines. Neurons in this case.
Turns out Neurons are more complex than we thought. They’re like little agents and can form coalitions and fight other groups for control.
even at the level of genes, there are complex interactions like these.
so the Mind is like an anarchy/chaotic state rather than orderly machine.
an organized mind is an achievement. A goal to yearn for.
recent explosion of big data accelerate research. However need more analytic capabilities.
previously a popular brain model is a logic gate if/then/else. Now it’s a massively parallel fuzzy machine.
Control is key to understanding. How do you control a parallel system. Obviously not from top - down.