The brain as a self-organizing field of networks
A recent NY Times article highlights Gerald Edelman’s new book, “Wider Than The Sky” in which the Nobel Prize neuroscientist proposes that, with its 30 billion neurons and 1 million billion connections (read: continuous conversations), there is simply “no overseer in the brain setting rules and making connections.”
What leads to the remarkable resilience and evolution of the brain’s learning is an immense field of redundancy and variation of pathways developed by experience. Amazing.
