Our Brains are Constructed Randomly (Origins)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 20, 2012, 18:42 (5043 days ago) @ David Turell

The philosophical ramifications are interesting. > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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. > > 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/