Our brain matter is stuck at a phase transition, says new study
Based on fractal patterns in neurons, researchers believe our brains exist at or near a state called criticality where they're extremely close to shifting from one state of matter to another. They also admit they don't know what either state is.
Fascinating study...proof of God's design!
How is that?
Interesting!
Readying for a new dimension.
FTA: Among the many characteristics that are very different across organisms, we relied on the suggestions of statistical physics to check which measures are potentially universal, such as critical exponents. Indeed, those are consistent across organisms," Kovács said.
In other words, they have no idea what they're even talking about about. This qualifies under Rand Paul's annual Festivus readings.
That's not what they are saying. The critical exponent is a well understood physical property in thermodynamics. What they showed here is the model they have for the brain looks similar to a thermodynamical model of a phase transition, even though they can't identify the specific characteristics of the distinct phases.
It is an intriguing paper, and may hint that the brain is actually bridging some new, exotic kind of energy or matter than we haven't yet identified. There is still so much we don't understand about the true nature of our universe, and these kinds of early experiments are exactly what led to breakthroughs like quantum mechanics.
Things that you can mathematically describe, but make no conventional sense.
Fractal patterns in neurons? Negative, its Orchestrated Objective Reduction, a well established theory for > 25 years.
"Experts" do like to tell us they have a new theory about our brains, but they don't take into consideration our gut flora, our other brain. They also don't talk about our mind.
Orch-OR talks about how our microtubules have a hydrophobic pocket in them which is organised in a coherent state, these are our memories. Its a complicated subject but if you are interested please see https://hameroff.arizona.edu/