New brain complexity: mapping (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, November 17, 2014, 15:11 (3659 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by David Turell, Monday, November 17, 2014, 15:17

This quote explains the problem:-"So many large and small questions remain unanswered. How is information encoded and transferred from cell to cell or from network to network of cells? Science found a genetic code but there is no brain-wide neural code; no electrical or chemical alphabet exists that can be recombined to say “red” or “fear” or “wink” or “run.” And no one knows whether information is encoded differently in various parts of the brain."-And this:-"The question now on his mind, and that of many neuroscientists, is how larger groups, thousands of neurons, work together — whether to produce an action, like reaching for a cup, or to perceive something, like a flower.There are ways to record the electrical activity of neurons in a brain, and those methods are improving fast. But, he said, “If I give you a picture of a thousand neurons firing, it's not going to tell you anything.”"-http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/learning-how-little-we-know-about-the-brain.html?_r=0-The brain is a computer like no other, and I don't think we can copy it completely. And Darwinians want us to accept all of this was the natural result of evolution.-Here is another example involving the complexity of simple memory at the molecular level:-http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/41435/title/How-a-Memory-Is-Made/