Tuesday, June 30, 2009

How Chaos Drives the Brain

Brain neuron constantly fire in response to the internal and external stimulus. Most of the time Brain is stable but there are times when it operates as a chaotic system. The video shows the animation of the brain's behavior


Neuroscientists have long suspected as much. Only recently, however, have they come up with proof that brains work this way. Now they are trying to work out why. Some believe that near-chaotic states may be crucial to memory, and could explain why some people are smarter than others.

In technical terms, systems on the edge of chaos are said to be in a state of "self-organised criticality". These systems are right on the boundary between stable, orderly behaviour - such as a swinging pendulum - and the unpredictable world of chaos, as exemplified by turbulence.

The complete article is here.

1 comments:

Mariana Soffer said...

Excellent idea about how the brain works, finally something proposing something new and interesting that seems to makes sense. I am convinced that the problem with neuroscience is that they are trying to make a wrong model that they invented of how the brain works that prove how the brain functions. So things never work.
They made many models, but all based on the same kind of thoughts, this is based in different ideas completely, that is why I think it might work.

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