The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimetre, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses — the connections between neurons. It incorporates a colossal 1.4 petabytes of data.
Assuming this means the total data of the map is 1.4 petabytes. Crazy to think that mapping of the entire brain will probably happen within the next century.
If one millionth of the brain is 1.4 petabytes, the whole brain would take 1.4 zettabytes of storage, roughly 4% of all the digital data on Earth.
There is an eerie resemblence between the smallest neuron and the largest structure in the universe - Galaxy Filament
I mean realistically we could just be a manifested thought of some higher being who took too big a toke of some 5-D Weed
Aha! This is why I can’t think straight! Spaghetti!
That cable management is horrendous. Pull them out.
But it’s the spaghetti cabling that makes it work and highly robust.
Incredible. Very humbling
Humbling? That’s going on in my head. I’m that complicated! Or at least the “hardware” I run on is. I think having a brain that beautifully complex is more empowering than anything! I wonder what new discoveries will stem from this.
Por que no los dos?
I can see both sides:
Super humbling because nature’s complexity can provide data storage and retrieval capacity several orders or magnitude greater than the best we can do right now.
Also super exciting because look at what every brain on the planet is composed of, and how it functions, in a freakin’ square millimeter!
Crazy stuff. Wild.
There’s a whole universe in there eh?
Let’s see Paul Allen’s brain scan.
Noam Chomsky said “we don’t know what happens when you cram 10^5 neurons* into a space the size of a basketball” - but what little we know is astonishing & a marvel
*whatever the number is
I thought this was a close up of a fuzzy sweater and was like: "cool ". Read the title. “Oh, fuck, yeah.”
