Peter Attia· MD
taxonomy gets you nowhere that's right attack just knowing the names of things something that I'm you know humbly I'm very good at I can memorize the names of things um you know many orders of magnitude Beyond like yeah what is necessary or useful right I can tell you that we could have sat here and I could tell you the 20 or so different kinds of ganglion cells in the retina how they code visual space what they inform the brain likely or not and the only thing that would have mattered is for you to understand that some cells sense motion some cells sense uh contrasts some encode color information and that it's built up in kind of a hierarchy pyramid pyramidal model to give you something like face recognition that's all that matters it doesn't matter if the alpha cell the beta cell the Theta sell the schmantle cell doesn't matter the names don't matter