Showing posts with label Brain stimulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brain stimulation. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Researchers found a structure in our brain that might be responsible for cognitive functions.

 Researchers found a structure in our brain that might be responsible for cognitive functions.  


The fruit flies have astonishing mathematical abilities. And the purpose of that thing is to protect them against things like parasitic wasps. The intelligence of insects is quite a new area in neurobiology. The thing that researchers noticed astonishing mathematical abilities when they researched fruit flies caused a question about those kinds of basically abstract skills "only reflexes". 

Things like communal or social insects require mathematical skills to find parasitic wasps when they attempt to go inside their nest. To protect their nest bees and other social insects require information on how many bees are left from the base. 

And then they must have a recognition protocol to recognize members of their swarms. They need the ability to follow their swarm mates' behavior to avoid the fungus infection. So the insects have only the skills that they need. And they need lots of skills. If we think about the size of their brain. 

Researchers have noticed that fruit flies brains react similar way to threats as the human brain reacts. And that thing gives new abilities and thoughts for modeling reactions in the human brain. 


"Scientists have discovered that human brain signals form swirling spirals on the outer layer of neural tissue, which play a crucial role in organizing brain activity and cognitive processes. This discovery, based on fMRI scans, could advance our understanding of brain dynamics, potentially leading to better computational models and insights into brain diseases like dementia". (ScitechDaily.com/The Missing Link in Cognitive Processing? Scientists Discover Swirling Spirals in the Brain)



The question is are things like mathematical abilities reflexes? Are all our functions and cognitive skills only the series of reflexes? 


Researchers found whirling spiral-shaped structures in our brains. Those structures might be part of the structure or system that controls cognitive functions in our brain. Cognitive function means voluntary learning, and in that process brain selects what kind of information it wants to store in the brain. And that thing means cognitive learning means the ability to send information through the brain. 

During that process, the brain selects the information that it wants to store. The spiral-looking structure makes it possible to drive information through the brain. And during that process, the brain areas can first store that information in themselves. Then those neurons will make a network and decide do they need those memories. 

If they don't need some memories, the brain drives them straight to the garbage. The idea is that cognitive learning or storing data happens when information travels through those neural spirals a second time. If information is not needed, it will not stored in memory cells. 

The number of memory cells is impressive, but that number is limited. Cognitive skills like mathematics require that the brain release the information that they get is important for something. The neural spiral makes it possible for humans. We can also analyze information more effectively than bees. 


The bees can react more effectively than humans, but bees can't make abstract decisions. The abstract decision means that humans can make so-called "empty decisions". When some bee sees something that seems a threat it always jumps airborne. The observation is connected to reflex. Humans have reflex cells. But we also have cells that are learning new things. 

The human reflex neuron protects humans against things like falling or some strike that comes to the face. But cells that are thinking are separated from that system. And that allows humans to learn things like mathematics. 

Fruit flies have astonishing mathematical abilities. Insects require this ability for one thing. They need mathematical abilities and fast calculation to avoid the intruders like parasitic wasps. There is a possibility that the skills of those neurons could transfer to the human brain neurons. And that could improve the mathematical skills of humans. 

Maybe that thing is only some kind of futuristic vision. However, researchers are making tests by using brain simulation to adjust the brain to learn mathematics. Mathematics is the abstract thing that requires that a person follows certain orders. 

Researchers use electric shocks to improve mathematical skills. The fact is that the brain cells are interacting by using certain types of chemicals and signals. In neural models, the same signals and chemicals that make fruit flies able to calculate things are also making human brain cells make the same things. 


https://mindmatters.ai/2022/02/single-neurons-perform-complex-math-even-in-fruit-flies/


https://neurosciencenews.com/locomotion-brain-center-23868/


https://scitechdaily.com/electrifying-learning-how-brain-stimulation-can-improve-math-learning/?expand_article=1


https://scitechdaily.com/perceiving-quantities-fruit-flies-astonishing-numerical-abilities/


https://scitechdaily.com/the-missing-link-in-cognitive-processing-scientists-discover-swirling-spirals-in-the-brain/



Saturday, April 21, 2018

The thoughts about the song "In the year 2525" part II (Microchip, what allows to click straight in the net)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

When we are thinking about the song "The Year 2525", we can imagine that maybe tomorrow in our society might put GSM-data implants to a human head, and that kind of systems allows the people of tomorrow to click themselves inside the Internet, without using visible computers.  Those WLAN-microchips might have the decoder, what would change the data that form, that it can be used to control computers and in another way, the human brains would understand that data. In this case, the implanted microchips can allow us to use remote cameras or any database, where that person has access. This kind of equipment can allow making the "modern shaman", who can click the mind to the Internet, and it allows this person communicate with electronic devices by using EEG-transmission. Those micro chips could be the most dangerous invention in human history.


Implanted Microchips would allow following any thoughts and actions, what we do, and that would be the top invention of "Orwellian control society". This kind of systems is introduced in some SciFi-books, where the person is allowed to click inside Internet, without any visible computers. That could be possible by using implanted WLAN-microchips, what is set in the brains after the birth. Why is this technology so fascinating? It allows us to increase our body and mind to the machine, what would become our second body.  But we don't always realize the risks of that technology.


Memories what would transfer from robots would be our own, and if somebody would hack that system, would it cause the situation, where somebody can make murder and put that to some other person's fault. In this case, the criminal would simply collect the own EEG during the crime and transfer the brain waves to other person's brain core. Only thing, what that criminal must avoid, is to think his own name. And then this person can record the EEG, and transfer that to some other man or woman brain core.  That kind of systems is investigating in real life because the brain core controlled robots would be very useful in many missions.


Those robots would look like humans, and they would be controlled by thoughts, what means that the electric operands in the human brain would send by decoder thru the Internet. And the opposite way the robot would send the feedback from its cameras and other sensors straight to controller's brain core. The sense of touch would make by using piezoelectric crystals, what would send the sense to robots computer, and that robot would send that information to controller's brains. That kind of equipment allows controlling robots in very dangerous missions.

Below:

The link to that song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yesyhQkYrQM

http://crisisofdemocracticstates.blogspot.fi/p/the-thoughts-about-song-in-year-2525.html

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