MessageToEagle.com - There are around 100 billion neurons in your brain. They form up to 100 trillion
synaptic interconnections!
These synapses are the most important key to almost every one of your unique,
identifiable features like memories, mental disorders, and even personality - all encoded in the wiring of your brain.
Decision-making processes in our brain, for example, are also influenced by neurons, according to neuroscientists.
Whether in society or nature, decisions are often the result of complex interactions between many factors. Because
of this it is usually difficult to determine how much weight the different factors have in making a final decision.
Neuroscientists face a similar problem since decisions made by the brain always involve many neurons.
The pathways in your brain — the connections between neurons — are almost perfectly grid-like.
Credits: Van Wedeen, M.D., Martinos Center and Dept. of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University Medical School
Working in collaboration, the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, supported within
the framework of the Bernstein Network, researchers lead by CIN professor Matthias Bethge have now shown how the weight
of individual neurons in the decision-making process can be reconstructed despite interdependencies between the neurons.
When we see a person on the other side of the street who looks like an old friend, the informational input enters the
brain via many sensory neurons.
But which of these neurons are crucial
in passing on the relevant information to higher brain areas, which will decide who the person is and whether to wave and say 'hello'?
A research group lead by Matthias Bethge has now developed an equation that allows them to calculate to what degree a
given individual sensory neuron is involved in the decision process.
To approach this question, researchers have so far considered the information about the final decision that an individual
sensory neuron carries.
Just as an individual is considered suspicious if he or she is found to have insider information
about a crime, those sensory neurons whose activity contains information about the eventual decision are presumed to have
played a role in reaching the final decision.
Our neurons. Credits: Scientopia
The problem with this approach is that neurons – much like people – are
constantly communicating with each other. A neuron which itself is not involved in the decision may simply have received
this information from a neighboring neuron and “joined in” the conversation.
Actually, the neighboring cell sends out the crucial signal transmitted to the higher decision areas in the brain.
The new formula that has been developed by scientists addresses this by accounting not just for the information in
the activity of any one neuron but also for the communication that takes place between them.
This formula will now be used to determine whether only a few neurons that carry a lot of information are involved in the brain's decision
process, or whether the information contained in very many neurons gets combined. In particular, it will be possible
to address the more fundamental question: In which decisions does the brain use information in an optimal way, and
for which decisions is its processing suboptimal?
Do We Live In A Computer Simulation Created By An Advanced Alien Civilization?
The captivating idea that we might be living in 3 dimensional holographic simulation has been put forward by various scientists.
We will explore this mind-boggling idea further and examine some intriguing questions.
If we suspect that we are programmed beings living inside a simulation is there any way for us to find out if this is true?
Is it possible to change the outcome of this virtual game?
Death Is Just An Illusion:
We Continue To Live In A Parallel Universe
For as long as anyone can remember philosophers, scientists and religious men have pondered what happens after death.
Is there life after death, or do we just vanish into the great unknown?
There is also a possibility there is no such thing as what we usually define as death.
A new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
MessageToEagle.com - There are around 100 billion neurons in your brain. They form up to 100 trillion
synaptic interconnections!
Would you like to live forever? What do you think about the idea that your conscious mind will be uploaded into a hologram?
How far should scientists go in their quest for
human immortality?
Theses are just some of the many questions that concern Project Avatar 2045.
The captivating idea that we might be living in 3 dimensional holographic simulation has been put forward by various scientists.
We will explore this mind-boggling idea further and examine some intriguing questions.
If we suspect that we are programmed beings living inside a simulation is there any way for us to find out if this is true?
Is it possible to change the outcome of this virtual game?
For as long as anyone can remember philosophers, scientists and religious men have pondered what happens after death.
Is there life after death, or do we just vanish into the great unknown?
There is also a possibility there is no such thing as what we usually define as death.
A new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.