http://mindhacks.com/2012/10/19/a-history-of-ideas-about-the-brain/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2012/10/19/a-history-of-ideas-about-the-brain/#comment-39824 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:04:15 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=24591#comment-39824 What did you think of the new proposed connectome imaging technique?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2012/10/19/a-history-of-ideas-about-the-brain/#comment-38778 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:09:34 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=24591#comment-38778 Lisa Randall talks about those kind of emergent properties, she compares the ingredients of a souffle (eggs, sugar, chocolate, etc)to the souffle itself. So as science goes through those changes trying to connect the units to the whole. So with brain science it’s more about the electrical and chemical impulses. Knocking on Heaven’s Door – that’s Randall’s book – talks about those types of “fractals” (in physics discoveries) and how they’ve evolved over time.

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