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The brain is far from a black box. There is technology to trace all signals and even all molecules traveling around. What is missing is understanding how it wor
by bagosm 13y ago
The brain is far from a black box. There is technology to trace all signals and even all molecules traveling around. What is missing is understanding how it works, not seeing into it
- foobarbazqux 13y agoWe don't have a complete physical picture of what each individual macro feature (e.g. nerve ending, molecule of dopamine) of the brain is doing at any given instant. We are starting to understand neuronal topology. It's really like a program binary for which you don't have a disassembler, but maybe you have limited symbol information that you can look at in a debugger.