I’m proud of myself for sticking with this article! It hurts my brain just reading about this research. I don’t need the details - more the Cliff Notes. Our brains, our bodies - truly magnificent and humbling.
“Language itself is a fundamentally linear process, where one idea leads to the next. But if the thing you’re trying to describe has a million things happening simultaneously, language is not the right tool. It’s like understanding the stock market. The best way to make money on the stock market is probably not by understanding the fundamental concepts of economy. It’s by understanding how to utilize this data to know what to buy and when to buy it. That may have nothing to do with economics but with data and how data is used.”
The Technicolor images are a beautiful sight that evokes a fantastic thought: The mysteries of how brains create memories, thoughts, perceptions, feelings—consciousness itself—must be hidden in this labyrinth of neural connections.
Some interesting information on the state of the art of understanding how the brain works.
Neuroscientists have had the complete wiring diagram of the worm C. elegans for a few decades now, but arguably do not understand the 300-neuron creature in its entirety; how its brain connections relate to its behaviors is still an active area of research.
Beautifully written piece. Almost poetic. There is an allusion I appreciate: that mapping the brain to that exabyte-scale is making the territory the map, which is a little unwieldy, if redundant. Yet, the form of a thing must be understood intricately, especially for a complex systems.
It will be interesting to see where, if at all, neuroscientists finally draw a compromise and produce a workable, minified representation of (at least) one sub-sub-sub-description that takes the world one step closer to describing, if not yet understanding, the brain.
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I’m proud of myself for sticking with this article! It hurts my brain just reading about this research. I don’t need the details - more the Cliff Notes. Our brains, our bodies - truly magnificent and humbling.
Agreed!
Agreed!
I loved that quote as well. And it applies to life in general!
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Amazing article!
I, too, loved the colored images of the mouse cortex - looked like a heap of tangled Christmas lights.
Some interesting information on the state of the art of understanding how the brain works.
The human brain has around 86 billion neurons.
Beautifully written piece. Almost poetic. There is an allusion I appreciate: that mapping the brain to that exabyte-scale is making the territory the map, which is a little unwieldy, if redundant. Yet, the form of a thing must be understood intricately, especially for a complex systems.
It will be interesting to see where, if at all, neuroscientists finally draw a compromise and produce a workable, minified representation of (at least) one sub-sub-sub-description that takes the world one step closer to describing, if not yet understanding, the brain.