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W winner-take-all computation, because a nervous system cannot afford be indecisive and it cannot give confusing commands and you cannot try to the both sit here and walk at the same time. >> the team discovered which neurons correlated with which response and then engineered the experiment and enacting the neurons to perform one way or another. >> we go through thousands of neurrons in this way, and one at ime and ask, what happens if we activate this neuron? >> you would not think that a common fruit fly would be so complex, but a few years of experiment experiments in, and they still only m...

Neurr but to identify these neural connections is not easy. instead of 86 billion, the fruit fly has only 15 billion. >> the fruit fly larvae at at the moment is the ideal system because the connections between the neur onrons are very small. it has a compact enough system that it is possible to image the entire nervous system with a g magnetic mi kros pcroscopy. >> and time to turn off the lights to see the clues that are the ensemble of neurrons that result in fight or flight reaction. >> the nervous system has to implement a so-called very harsh and decisive computation of a

Floated the idea with friends of mick mulvaney, who already has two jobs. >> why not a third? >> the white house chief of staff is a fruit fly job. it is a short life span for anyone. under donald trump, it is fruit fly on accelerated fruit fly, very hard to imagine anybody staying in this job very long for donald trump, who has shown that his view of loyalty is a one way street. he expects constant deference and praise, but if you cause him any trouble, he's very quick, as corey lewandowski knows, to cut ties himself. so i do not expect that general kelly will be in this job indefinitely. i s...

Other than her own quality. >> meaning she would be an historic candidate. >> strong, competent person, smart person. >> she has checked off all the boxes. she was secretary of state. so we'll have to see. she has a real challenge ahead of her. >> david, you make the point that hillary clinton should be rooting for the success of the affordable care act which, by the way, i'm sure she is. >> yeah. >> isn't that politically -- how does that leave congressional democrats? does their fate turn on that same issue? should they be rooting for and doing everything they can for the success of the affo...

Does there come a moment when they have to separate? >> democrats -- i should say politicians. this is true for both parties -- often seem to have the political memories of a fruit fly. you know, they really think they -- they act every day as if they're about to die the next day. right? so this week, they say oh, my god, look what's happening. because we have an election in a year and nothing else is going to happen between now and then. they're kind of starting to run for the hills or at least look for the hills because they see obama's numbers dropping and they never have patients. ultimate...