Tuesday, November 30, 2010

QUITE A FASCINATING WAY TO PICTURE HUMAN THINKING...

"Human thinking is not very deep. In fact it’s only about 4 mm deep. That’s the thickness of the cerebral cortex or the brain’s gray matter. It contains a lot of neurons though - about 11 billion I read somewhere. About twice as many as that of a chimp.

It appears that it’s the size, density and connectivity of the brain’s neural network that makes it able to do what it does. Help us think.

I picture thinking as a cognitive process running on a neuroplatform, which in turn operates on 110 mV electrical pulses at the Ranvier nodes along axons and the flow of neurotransmitters across synaptic gaps. Still somewhat of a mystery how that turns into actual thoughts, ideas and perceptions in the human mind..."

Source: Brainovation Blog, by Anders Hemre, founder & CEO of InterKnowledge Technologies;

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