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Striving for complexity: Werner Doyle at TEDxLowerEastSide

2,316 views · Published 10 January 2014 · 13:11 · Indexed 23 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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What happens when our brain loses its innate complexity? Neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery at NYU, Werner Doyle, knows that seizures happen from a loss of complexity in the brain. Driven to develop processes to promote and sustain complexity, Dr. Doyle addresses the value of complexity and how we may self-generate it.

Specializing in epilepsy surgery while collaborating with neuroscientists at NYU studying brain mechanisms, he is also quite the Renaissance man what with his interest in contemplative neuroscience, building Buckminster Fuller geodesic domes, and 3-D printing.

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