Quotes About Neurons

Genes come together to construct a magnificent life-form, while neurons come together to form our Illusion of Consciousness.

This impulsive behavior: you realize it's a storm in the brain, neurons on the edge of chaos. Obsession is just a variety of addiction. But what scientist ever had self-control? They instruct them in school: it's bad form to be balanced.

It is in all that complex synaptic entanglement that our intelligence lies, not in the number of neurons , as was once thought.

But look at all those neurons in the arms!" he said. "They may have a radically different style of psychological organization from us. Perhaps in octopus we see intelligence without a centralized self. If you have the design of an octopus," Peter asked, "is there a sense of self at all, a center of experience? If not, that involves imagining something so different from us it might be impossible to think of.

Por ejemplo, el impulso que corresponde a la nota «mi» captada por el oído, se desliza rápidamente de una neurona a otra hasta alcanzar a todas aquellas que contienen las moléculas de ácido RNA correspondiente a esta excitación particular. Las células fabrican de inmediato moléculas de la proteína correspondiente regida por este ácido, y realizamos la audición de dicha nota.

"You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

What is the largest land mammal doing with three times as many neurons as our own species?

In fact, it has been proposed that absolute neuron count, regardless of brain or body size, best predicts a species' mental powers.61

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.

Attentional amplification of sensory awareness in any sensory medium is achieved by top-down signals from prefrontal cortex that modulate activity of single neurons in sensory brain areas in the absence of any sensory stimulation and significantly increase baseline activity in the corresponding target region.

Neural nets—perhaps a bit like brains—are set up to have an essentially fixed network of neurons, with what's modified being the strength ("weight") of connections between them.

A mere 20 watts of energy are required to power the 22 billion neurons in a brain that's roughly the size of a grapefruit. To field a conventional computer with comparable cognitive capacity would require gigawatts of electricity and a machine the size of a football field.

What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

some types of neurons may be found only in specific species.

UFCNo such thing as childhood memories, he says. We're just playing games with our neurons every day, tossing them around the hippocampus, constructing little fairy tales featuring characters named after people we used to live with. 'Your dad is just a flurry of molecular activity in your frontal lobe' he'll tell you...

No such thing as childhood memories, he says. We're just playing games with our neurons every day, tossing them around the hippocampus, constructing little fairy tales featuring characters named after people we used to live with. 'Your dad is just a flurry of molecular activity in your frontal lobe' he'll tell you...

Cogito: my thinking is distinguished from knowledge, and from the various processes of understanding— memory, imagination, deductive reason, discernment, geometry— that have been externalized, along with synapses and neurons, in the computer.

There are an estimated 100 billion neurons residing inside the skull with an exponential amount of neural connections

The fruit fly has roughly 150,000 neurons in the brain.

Sorprendentemente, se puede introducir directamente en una neurona, con precisión quirúrgica, un gen sensible a la luz que hace que la célula se dispare. A continuación, se enciende el haz de luz y la neurona se activa. Y, lo que es más importante, esto permite a los científicos excitar esos recorridos, de manera que pueden activar y desactivar determinados comportamientos con pulsar un interruptor.

Fruit flies have only 250,000 neurons, and they too display complex behaviors. In lab experiments, when faced with dim mating prospects, some seek out alcohol, the consciousness-altering substance that's available to them in nature in broken-open, fermenting fruit.

By embracing the nearly ludicrous suggestion that a gloppy grey knot of neurons has consciousness, you've already taken the big step.

We sometimes hear of things that can travel faster than light. Something called 'the speed of thought' is occasionally proffered. This is an exceptionally silly notion especially since the speed of impulses through the neutrons in our brain is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart.

la na?tere, creierul unei fiin?e umane este preg?tit s?-?i fac? treaba, dar esen?ial este ce-i d?m s? fac? ?i cu cum îl hr?nim. Un specialist ne va vorbi nu despre num?rul de neuroni, ci despre conexiunile care se creeaz? între ei.