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After reading through all comments as of 2024/05/11 I (as a professor at some major university) am quite surprised that not one single comment has asked the obv

After reading through all comments as of 2024/05/11 I (as a professor at some major university) am quite surprised that not one single comment has asked the obvious question (instead of dishing out loads of (partial) "textbook knowledge" about brain functions, the difference between mammals and birds, AI and LLM etc.), which would be: what do all those strange structures and objects do which we know nothing about whatsoever? Have a look: https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/gallery.html https://h01-release.storage.googleapis.com/gallery.html I count seven.

spacetimeuser5 2y ago
These data do not have a control group of healthy similar tissue samples, thus are not falsifiable, and are not 100% scientifically valid.
ben_w 2y ago
Neat, thanks. As a complete outsider who doesn't know what to look for, the dendrite inside soma (dendrite from one cell tunnelling through the soma of another) was the biggest surprise.
dmarble 2y ago
I'm in awe at the complexity and unknowability of it all, but I also have to chuckle at the thought that some portion may be vestigial. I'm particularly fond of the "Egg shaped object with no associated processes". :)
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- Terretta 2y ago
  Sure, if you think of it as an egg, instead of as a galaxy of electrons and atoms so dense as to have structure big enough for us to give it the label "egg shaped object". What if it's a "wireless" device?
- NexusMethod 2y ago
  me too! :-)
  - signal_space 2y ago
    wrt to the egg - could be excreting chemicals modulating the intracellular medium
- bluechar 2y ago
  Tech debt in our own brains.
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- tomcam 2y ago
  Maybe it's vestigial. But when I was your age that's what they said about "Junk DNA", which turned out not to be junk.
bamboozled 2y ago
It's pretty awesome that all this complexity produces something beautiful like, a smile, or love.

spacetimeuser5 2y ago

These data do not have a control group of healthy similar tissue samples, thus are not falsifiable, and are not 100% scientifically valid.

ben_w 2y ago

Neat, thanks. As a complete outsider who doesn't know what to look for, the dendrite inside soma (dendrite from one cell tunnelling through the soma of another) was the biggest surprise.

dmarble 2y ago

I'm in awe at the complexity and unknowability of it all, but I also have to chuckle at the thought that some portion may be vestigial. I'm particularly fond of the "Egg shaped object with no associated processes". :)

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Terretta 2y ago
Sure, if you think of it as an egg, instead of as a galaxy of electrons and atoms so dense as to have structure big enough for us to give it the label "egg shaped object". What if it's a "wireless" device?
NexusMethod 2y ago
me too! :-)
- signal_space 2y ago
  wrt to the egg - could be excreting chemicals modulating the intracellular medium
bluechar 2y ago
Tech debt in our own brains.
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tomcam 2y ago
Maybe it's vestigial. But when I was your age that's what they said about "Junk DNA", which turned out not to be junk.

bamboozled 2y ago

It's pretty awesome that all this complexity produces something beautiful like, a smile, or love.