image courtesy to Newseek, Blue Bird Project
According to a fascinating article in Newsweek, our brain creates structures up to 11 dimensions complex during the thinking process.
The discovery was made when scientists started to apply complex mathematical formulas to the way neurons (and groups of neurons) are clicking on certain stimuli. They found out that neurons are grouping into ephemeral structures, very complex, but also completely volatile: once the process ended, that specific structures disappears like sand castles.
"We found a world that we had never imagined. There are tens of millions of these objects even in a small speck of the brain, up through seven dimensions. In some networks, we even found structures with up to eleven dimensions."
said Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, the organization which published the study.
I knew the brain was a very complex machinery, but I confess I'm finding it difficult to even understand structures created below the fifth dimension (and that's only because I saw Luc Besson's movie about The Fifth Element, you know).
But maybe I just created a few of those structures while writing this very post, who knows.
For a fascinating reading, head to the original article.
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