Scientists Find Evidence The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
Back in 2017, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.
What they discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
Scientists Find Evidence The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 DimensionsBack in 2017, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.
What they discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions.
more…
that’s an interesting read, you’ll be hearing more re that related in the future
transition said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Scientists Find Evidence The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 DimensionsBack in 2017, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.
What they discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions.
more…
that’s an interesting read, you’ll be hearing more re that related in the future
OK, it is quite QI, but I wish they’d tried a bit harder at explaining what this 11 dimensionality actually means, rather than focusing on the gee-wizzness of it all.
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Scientists Find Evidence The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 DimensionsBack in 2017, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.
What they discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions.
more…
that’s an interesting read, you’ll be hearing more re that related in the future
OK, it is quite QI, but I wish they’d tried a bit harder at explaining what this 11 dimensionality actually means, rather than focusing on the gee-wizzness of it all.
Perhaps they don’t actually know yet?
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
transition said:that’s an interesting read, you’ll be hearing more re that related in the future
OK, it is quite QI, but I wish they’d tried a bit harder at explaining what this 11 dimensionality actually means, rather than focusing on the gee-wizzness of it all.
Perhaps they don’t actually know yet?
I presume the mathematicians who define the maths know what it means.
The Rev Dodgson said:
roughbarked said:
The Rev Dodgson said:OK, it is quite QI, but I wish they’d tried a bit harder at explaining what this 11 dimensionality actually means, rather than focusing on the gee-wizzness of it all.
Perhaps they don’t actually know yet?
I presume the mathematicians who define the maths know what it means.
I can hazard a guess. Nothing too special.
Think of a ball in 2-d (circle), it can be adjacent to up to 6 neighbours.
In 3-d (sphere) it can be up to 12 neighbours (face centred cubic).
In 4-d it can be up to 48 neighbours.
So presumably they’ve found a few cells each with very many synapses, and interpret synapses as “neighbours”. A typical neuron has “thousands of synapses”. So feed the number of synapses back into the number of nearest neighbours of an n-sphere to get a dimensionality n.
Even so, 11-d seems excessive.
Or perhaps …
Perhaps they’ve looked at individual cells and the ratio of surface area to volume. In higher dimensions the ratio of surface area to volume increases. That would be a less useful method.