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The Chaos in Your Head

June 29, 2009 | RSS | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS

Neuroscience and networks, two topics I can't resist.

And here they are all wrapped together in an article about how your brain constantly walks on the edge of chaos. Apparently, the chaotic cascades inside your head are what drives intelligence and people who let chaos take over more often (though not too much) are smarter (at least from an IQ perspective).

The neuronal avalanches that Beggs investigated, for example, are perfect for transmitting information across the brain. If the brain was in a more stable state, these avalanches would die out before the message had been transmitted. If it was chaotic, each avalanche could swamp the brain.

Oh, and apparently your brain has 13 degrees of separation. Who knew?

Tags: brain, networks, science


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1lee

looking forward to reading this, but the strange thing is that i was thinking about this last night.

i'm finally reading convergence culture (not just stealing ideas for presentations), which has been sitting on my shelf for at least 2 years now and was thinking through what the implications were for what we do.

as jenkins is going on about transmedia, etc etc etc i was thinking: wait, but how flexible are our minds to accept all this stuff? what's the role of the mind in sorting through all these fractured, nontraditional modes of storytelling?

there are also cultural implications to this too, i think, since intelligence is a bit of a cultural construct, no?

again, have to read the article, but interesting...

June 29, 2009

2barbara

I like to think of it as tangential thinking, it integrates chaos theory without succumbing :)

June 30, 2009