Quotes and Sayings About Neurons

The first attempts to consider the behavior of so-called "random neural nets" in a systematic way have led to a series of problems concerned with relations between the "structure" and the "function" of such nets. The "structure" of a random net is not a clearly defined topological manifold such as could be used to describe a circuit with explicitly given connections. In a random neural net, one does not speak of "this" neuron synapsing on "that" one, but rather in terms of tendencies and probabilities associated with points or regions in the net.
-- Anatol Rapoport

#Connections #Doe #Neurons

Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons.
-- David Perlmutter

#Cells #Brain #Neurons

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.
-- Francis Crick

#Neurons #Packs

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.
-- Frans de Waal

#Octopus #Brain #Neurons

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.
-- Gregory Bateson

#Neurons #Used #Combination

If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.
-- Hollis Frampton

#Fire #Nerves #Neurons

Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
-- Julian Baggini

#Love Is #Roots #Neurons

The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die.
-- Lisa Genova

#Support #Useless #Neurons

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
-- Michio Kaku

#Brain #Sitting #Neurons

Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.
-- Richard Dawkins

#Brain #May #Neurons

Go pump some neurons. Expand your craniums
-- Robin Williams

#Inspiration #Neurons #Pumps

Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana.
-- Sara Genn

#Mirrors #Neurons #Monkeys

In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many more connections between them must have changed and grown as a result of many accidents.
-- Stanislaw Ulam

#Brain #Neurons #Connections

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.
-- Jeremy Bernstein

#Numbers #Brain #Neurons

There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a conscious experience. We don't even have the beginnings of a theory whose conclusion would be "such a system is conscious.
-- Stuart J. Russell

#Brain #Would Be #Neurons