The “Eleven Dimensional” Brain? Topology of Neural Networksby Neuroskeptic, a blogger at the Discover Magazine. I recommend you lot that article if you lot desire to demystify the whole thing. It's probable that most of the "regular media" prefer to transcend on you lot mystified.
This "higher-dimensional brain" reminds me of or in addition to hence papers that caught my attending inward the mid 1990s – papers yesteryear (otherwise) string theorist Dimitri Nanopoulos in addition to his collaborators such every bit Mavromatos. To plough over you lot a corking example, await at this 1995 hep-ph (!) paper
Theory of Brain Function, Quantum Mechanics in addition to SuperstringsMicropoulos wrote a lot most the NanoTubules – OK, it was the other agency around, Nanopoulos wrote most MicroTubules. I was ever rather skeptical in addition to that skepticism was sufficient to forestall me from trying to read such papers carefully.
But inward the subsequent ii decades, I convey read a lot of this ambitious, quirky scientific discipline in addition to my skepticism deepened. These days, I would in all likelihood dismiss Nanopoulos' newspaper correct away. In the abstract, Nanopoulos referred to the Penrose-Hameroff "quantum theories of the brain". I mean value that those claims – partly driven yesteryear Penrose's misunderstanding of quantum mechanics in addition to Hameroff's misunderstanding of whatever physics – were in addition to hence stupid that the stupidity is plenty to reasonably dismiss whatever newspaper that simply positively mentions Penrose's in addition to Hameroff's ideas.
It was ever attractive to imagine or in addition to hence higher-dimensional structures that secretly be within the brain. There was something fascinatingly possible – in addition to these speculations gave me goosebumps despite the skepticism. Fortunately, Neuroskeptic has beautifully demystified the newest stuff. Biologists nation that the encephalon is \(N\)-dimensional every bit shortly every bit you lot regain a grouping of \((N+1)\) neurons inward which every neuron is connected amongst all other neurons.
It's similar the connections betwixt the \((N+1)\) vertices of a simplex inward \(N\) dimensions (such every bit the triangle in addition to tetrahedron for \(N=2,3\), respectively).
OK, you lot may run into that the neuroscientists are rather modest. As shortly every bit they run into sufficiently many connections betwixt several neurons, they verbalize most higher-dimensional space. If you lot transcend on on reading, it starts to audio similar Radio Erevan (from the Soviet jokes). OK, instead of genuinely higher-dimensional structures, you lot simply convey many connections betwixt neurons that may endure ordered inward the commons 3-dimensional space.
On summit of that, the maximum dimension they institute was non 11, similar the spacetime inward M-theory, but exclusively 7. And to brand the floor fifty-fifty less persuasive than what the hype sounds like, this high dimension isn't a characteristic of a existent encephalon but simply a simulation of a brain. And it's non a faux human brain, it's simply a faux rat brain.
Well, the writers of the simulation may sure cause upwards one's hear how much the "cliques" are connected, can't they? When you lot realize such a thing, it becomes totally puzzling what their claim really is. The tilt that "one may write downward a simulation amongst many connections" sure doesn't audio similar an exciting scientific uncovering to me. Neuroskeptic says it is really interesting work, anyway, in addition to hence I may endure overlooking something really precious. But I simply don't run into it in addition to it's non clear to me how this may endure a flagship number of a encephalon middle whose funding is $1 billion. The suggestions that they convey institute a link to M-theory are in all likelihood vacuous in addition to they're nada else than pure hype.
If you lot tell me something exciting that I misunderstand, it may endure appreciated.