Nature vs. Nurture, Neurogenetics, Personality, Autism, Schizophrenia, Synesthesia & Free Will | Kevin Mitchell | 78
Mind & Matter
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Is There a Noise in the Brain?
The way the brain works reflects its structure, then we can look directly at the structure and see, you know what, there's noise here. That's nothing to do from outside the organism. In fruit fly embryos, they have these abdominal segments o the larva will crawl around, right? So they have muscles in their body wall. And each segment has exactly the same muscles, an array of 30 muscleswe they have numbers,. They are en enervated by about forty different motor neuron coming from the nerve cord. Hen we can see the same one on two sides of the animal for like eight segments at a time. The reason why is because neural development was contingent on prior processes having
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