- 19 Feb 2018 18:28
#14890276
Your Cortex contains 17 billion computers.
I'm sure you all have seen images of neurons before. But this time, it's different.
We used to think of each dendron as a 'wire'. A single input device for the central processor that is the neuron itself. But this is wrong. Turns out, each dendron is its own logic circuit. Each one receives multiple input. And each one obeys its own form of logic to determine the output to the neuron. So each brain cell is not a single processor, but rather its own neural network. The brain is a network of networks of networks; handling at least 3 orders of magnitude more processing than we originally thought.
In addition, each dendron is capable of passing data to other brain cells without instruction from its cell; making the brain cell not just a circuit in a computer, nor just self contained computer. Each cell is more like an intranet of separate computers connected to a central hub. Each dendron can independently communicate with multiple other networks, or according to instructions from the hub.
And there are billions of these "networks" in the brain; tens of billions of "computers" and trillions of "internet connections"
Mind blown.
I'm sure you all have seen images of neurons before. But this time, it's different.
We used to think of each dendron as a 'wire'. A single input device for the central processor that is the neuron itself. But this is wrong. Turns out, each dendron is its own logic circuit. Each one receives multiple input. And each one obeys its own form of logic to determine the output to the neuron. So each brain cell is not a single processor, but rather its own neural network. The brain is a network of networks of networks; handling at least 3 orders of magnitude more processing than we originally thought.
In addition, each dendron is capable of passing data to other brain cells without instruction from its cell; making the brain cell not just a circuit in a computer, nor just self contained computer. Each cell is more like an intranet of separate computers connected to a central hub. Each dendron can independently communicate with multiple other networks, or according to instructions from the hub.
And there are billions of these "networks" in the brain; tens of billions of "computers" and trillions of "internet connections"
Mind blown.
All Governments, regardless of ideology, consistently do two things: The systematic plundering of their captive population, and the arbitrary enrichment of a few.