How much do we know about the brain?
As we have been able to see and learn in today’s session, the brain remains a mystery to us. We know what shape it has, how it is structured, what function each part of the brain has, etc. But even though researchers have launched multiple lines of research, we don’t know everything.
It is estimated that the brain contains about 100 billion neurons. The connections are much more: it is estimated that they reach 100 billion in total and form a network of approximately 160,000 kilometers. That's a picture of our brain, our personal computer. Researchers are now mapping the photo, atlas.
What does it take to understand how the brain works?
Assisted by Izaskun Elezalto
Neuroscience is a long-standing science. However, research has been very slow until half a century ago, when we defined what neurons were. Since then, however, the technique has advanced a lot and more solid steps are also being taken in the research.
The brain is already known, and researchers are now beginning to understand how it works. Researchers have also begun to take measures to protect themselves from errors, i.e., taking steps to reduce the incidence of mental illness, prevent illness, and explore prevention options. Some of them are also working to create brains.
Brain creation, science or fiction?Izaskun
Elezalto
When we talk about creating the brain, we immediately come up with concepts of a different kind that have something to do with ethics: control, manipulation, etc.
If we are able to create the brain, we will also be able to control it,
right?
Mathematical models for therapeutic purposes. In fact, researchers are hopeful that discoveries will be made in the coming years to prevent and cure mental illness. They talk about the possibilities of nanotechnology.
Will the brain with the defect be repaired?Izaskun
Elezgoi.
It is clear, we know more and more about the functioning of the brain, and it seems that we are less and less lacking to fully understand the brain, to know how an electrical signal becomes abstraction, and how it is stored for what it is intended to use. We may never know, and we may never be able to solve the mystery. Maybe it is.
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