Mathematics of Life: Unlocking the Secrets of Existence by Ian Stewart

Author:Ian Stewart [Stewart, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781846681981
Google: HxaHPQAACAAJ
Amazon: B0054461N2
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2011-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

Neuroscience is one of the most active areas of mathematical biology. Researchers are working on a huge variety of topics: how neurons work, how they link up during development, how the brain learns, how memory works, how incoming information from the senses is interpreted. Even the more elusive aspects of the human brain, such as its relation to mind, consciousness and free will, are also under investigation. The techniques employed include dynamics, networks and statistics.

In parallel with these theoretical developments, biologists have made major advances in experimental techniques to study what the brain is doing. There are now several ways to image the activity of the brain in real time – in effect, to watch which parts of the brain are active, and how the activity passes from one region to another. But the brain is immensely complex, and at the moment it is probably better to focus on specific features of the nervous system, rather than trying to understand the whole thing in one go. Our brains are so complicated that, ironically, they may be inadequate to understand ... our brains.

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