Free will and wiring (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, April 03, 2014, 22:33 (3887 days ago) @ David Turell

Mouse brain wiring gives a hint of human brain complexity and the reality of self:
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140402133943.htm-"As we have seen before the brain has more switches than all the computers and routers and Internet connections on Earth. That is not all the brains on Earth, nor all human brains, but merely a single brain of a single human. With over 100 billion nerve cells, or neurons, and a quadrillion synapses, or connections, it is, as one researcher described, "truly awesome." Researchers have found that the brain's complexity is beyond anything they'd imagined, or as one evolutionist admitted, almost to the point of being "beyond belief." Amidst all these nerve cells and connections, a key question is: "Exactly which nerve cells do all these connections link together?" These connections should reveal a great deal about how the brain works, for while a single nerve cell may be enormously complex, it is in the massive networking of these many neurons that the brain's fantastic processing and cognitive powers are likely to emerge.- "It was a massive imaging job and it has produced almost two petabytes of data. The result is a high-level view of the mouse brain's wiring diagram. The diagram is like a map of the major freeways and highways between cities, except the brain's mapping is in three dimensions and is far more complex"-http://darwins-god.blogspot.com/2014/04/mapping-brains-connectionsthe-connectome.html