Our Brains are Constructed Randomly (Origins)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 20, 2012, 18:42 (4445 days ago) @ David Turell


> > > > The philosophical ramifications are interesting.
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> > > What I get out of the article is the independence of the neuron must be the contributing factor to the amazing plasticity of the brain
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> > The key factor is that we can model the brain's construction via a random process. You can get what you want out of it, but if we can predict whether two neurons will be connected by a random roll of the dice--and we can now--that means that something as complex as the brain *can* be constructed via random processes.
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> Fascinating, but the parallelism does not tell us why our big brain developed. It does tell us that an algorithm may have been used or applied in the process.-Another blog casts doubt on the initial study. The brain is extremely complex and neurophysiology must account for brain metabolism which certainly has an effect on connections and consciousness:-http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2012/09/19/modular-complexity-and-reverse-engineering-the-brain/