Each individual neuron is itself a computer …
Posted on April 28th, 2010 by MichaelNew Scientist Life, Apr. 26, 2010
The brain’s power will turn out to derive from data processing within the neuron rather than activity between neuron, suggests University of Cambridge research biologist Brian J. Ford.
“Each individual neuron is itself a computer, and the brain a vast community of microscopic computers… the human brain may be a trillion times more capable than we imagine,” he adds.
May 1st, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Makes sense. And I love this quote when he talks about the current way science studies cells parts, rather than cells as a whole. “Reductionism has us peering ever closer at the fibres in the paper of a musical score, and analysing the printer’s ink. I want us to experience the symphony.”