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11 Dimensional structures discovered in the brain
- igravious 9y agoprevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548898
- visarga 9y agoWhat does that even mean? A football team is also a 11 dimensional or 11*N dimensional.
- djfm 9y agoI don't understand what they mean by 11 dimensions. Last I checked we only have 3 spacial dimensions (exotic theories notwithstanding).
- mcphage 9y agoYou can have neurons connected to each other in ways that resemble the geometry of higher dimensions. Like, imagine that the vertices in this image are neurons, with the edges being connections between them: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Dimension_levels.svg/700px-Dimension_levels.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Di...