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Jonah Lehrer, Seed Magazine, posts a cogent reminder on the limits of reductionism in answering many fundamental questions about who we are and how we live. And it is worth reiterating here that understanding the physical workings of the brain only gives us certain types of information.
To quote him – “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, but we are also just stuff. What we need is a science that can encompass both sides of our being.” Indeed. And somehow through the messiness of sociology, philosophy, religion and other softer sciences we do indeed try to grapple with this messiness of subjective experience. And there, of course, is the rub. We are the ghost in the machine. Understanding the machine is becoming easier. Understanding ourselves remains, so far, as complex as it ever was. But we increasingly have tools that make it at least a little easier. What we do with them has been an evolving process. Where we go with them remains yet to be seen.
Tough title. All it means is that neurons assist one another in processing information. Traditional research has heretofor concluded that neurons communicate with one another simply by sending chemical bursts from one axonal ending to the next. New research at Maryland’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute indicates that neighboring synapses also become more sensitized to assist.
“The traditional view was that each synapse functioned independently, and the strength of individual connections modulated memory storage,” said Mr. Harvey, a graduate student at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. “What we’ve shown is that neighboring synapses may function together, which leads to the idea that information is stored in a clustered manner, with related things concentrated in the same neighborhood.”
This period of sensitivity appears to be on the order of ten minutes or so, which squares with the pragmatic need for keeping information just long enough to accomplish a task without overwhelming the system with too much information.
Link: New York Times
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