With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
Interpretation
The human brain is a highly intricate and dynamic system made up of countless interconnected neurons that continuously interact.
Miguel Nicolelis highlights the human brain's complexity by describing it as a system of billions of neurons that are in constant communication with each other. This intricate network allows for rapid changes and adaptations, illustrating not only the sophistication of our cognitive processes but also the dynamic nature of neural interactions that underpin our thoughts, behaviors, and experiences.
In practice
During a science presentation about the brain's functions, this quote can illustrate its complexity.
Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.
It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.
We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.
We cannot even predict what kinds of emergent properties would appear when animals begin interacting as part of a brain-net. In theory, you could imagine that a combination of brains could provide solutions that individual brains cannot achieve by themselves.
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.
More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
What I want to do is demonstrate that biology can learn how to make a vast array of molecules that people thought were outside the realm of biology.
Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
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