jtotheizzoe: silicongarden: Looking At Every Synapse In The Brain Is Breathtakingly Beautiful A reminder that the brain is not an orderly system of wires connected end-to-end, but rather the most powerful ball of tangled Christmas lights on Earth. So often we see neurons drawn in isolation, but cutting into a section of brain is like slicing through a mashed-up wad of multicolor Play-Doh snakes, except everything is the same color, and it’s really small. Sometimes I wonder if my analogies make any sense. Just go with me here. Look at those beautiful dendritic spines reaching out to make connections with that tangled web of information. Isn’t the brain astounding?
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jtotheizzoe: silicongarden: Looking At Every Synapse In The Brain Is Breathtakingly Beautiful A reminder that the brain is not an orderly system of wires connected end-to-end, but rather the most powerful ball of tangled Christmas lights on Earth. So often we see neurons drawn in isolation, but cutting into a section of brain is like slicing through a mashed-up wad of multicolor Play-Doh snakes, except everything is the same color, and it’s really small. Sometimes I wonder if my analogies make any sense. Just go with me here. Look at those beautiful dendritic spines reaching out to make connections with that tangled web of information. Isn’t the brain astounding?
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jtotheizzoe: silicongarden: Looking At Every Synapse In The Brain Is Breathtakingly Beautiful A reminder that the brain is not an orderly system of wires connected end-to-end, but rather the most powerful ball of tangled Christmas lights on Earth. So often we see neurons drawn in isolation, but cutting into a section of brain is like slicing through a mashed-up wad of multicolor Play-Doh snakes, except everything is the same color, and it’s really small. Sometimes I wonder if my analogies make any sense. Just go with me here. Look at those beautiful dendritic spines reaching out to make connections with that tangled web of information. Isn’t the brain astounding?
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jtotheizzoe: silicongarden: Looking At Every Synapse In The Brain Is Breathtakingly Beautiful A reminder that the brain is not an orderly system of wires connected end-to-end, but rather the most powerful ball of tangled Christmas lights on Earth. So often we see neurons drawn in isolation, but cutting into a section of brain is like slicing through a mashed-up wad of multicolor Play-Doh snakes, except everything is the same color, and it’s really small. Sometimes I wonder if my analogies make any sense. Just go with me here. Look at those beautiful dendritic spines reaching out to make connections with that tangled web of information. Isn’t the brain astounding?
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silicongarden:

Looking At Every Synapse In The Brain Is Breathtakingly Beautiful

A reminder that the brain is not an orderly system of wires connected end-to-end, but rather the most powerful ball of tangled Christmas lights on Earth.

So often we see neurons drawn in isolation, but cutting into a section of brain is like slicing through a mashed-up wad of multicolor Play-Doh snakes, except everything is the same color, and it’s really small.

Sometimes I wonder if my analogies make any sense. Just go with me here.

Look at those beautiful dendritic spines reaching out to make connections with that tangled web of information. Isn’t the brain astounding?

Source: gizmodo.com.au

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