wg48temp9 - 13-8-2019 at 04:48
I have always been curious as to how brains work and human ones in particular.
Significant progress has been made on the gross structure of brains and the electro-chemical and molecular operation of its neurons. In the case of
vision we have determined that in the visual cortex there are neurons that fire in response to particular elements in the visual field. For example a
vertical line moving left to right causes a particular neurons to fire but not if the line is moving from right to left.
Thanks to something Ajkoer posted, I found and paper describing how the hippocampus in rats represent spatial memory. Apparently individual neurons
represent places with different place sizes. When a new spatial environment is encountered previously silent (unused) neurons are engaged to represent
the places in the new environment.
Apparently its similar to addresses one neuron for the house number or name, one neuron for the street, one for the town and so on.
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I wounder if memory of chemistry, physics etc. are stored in a similar way perhaps even using our hippocampus. Apparently London taxi drivers that
have to learn the knowledge (memories the locations and routes of London, a huge task) have enlarged hippocampi. Do professors of chemistry have
enlarged hippocampi?
See a related discussion in this thread http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=80295
I think its important to develop a model, in effect a map of how the individual elements of a subject relate to each other. Of cause with chemistry
there are rules and relationships but it seems like there a lot of magic too. (magic = unexpected, unusual reactions) which are probably just missing
parts of the model but its like magic to me LOL