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When you look at an object, thousands of neurons in your posterior cortex fire.

These neurons encode various characteristics of the object: spiky, fruit, brown, green, and yellow.

This synchronous firing strengthens the connections between that set of neurons, linking them together into what's known as a neuronal ensemble, in this case the one for pineapple.

In neuroscience, this is called the Hebbian principle, neurons that fire together wire together.

In fact, every object that you've seen is encoded by a neuronal ensemble associated with it, the neurons wired together by that synchronized firing.

Prefrontal cortex neurons are connected to the posterior cortex by long, spindly cell extensions called neural fibers.

The mental synthesis theory proposes that like a puppeteer pulling the strings, the prefrontal cortex neurons send electrical signals down these neural fibers to multiple ensembles in the posterior cortex.

The problem is that some neurons are much farther away from the prefrontal cortex than others.

It's made of a vast network of 90 billion neurons, which relay signals through their long axons to communicate throughout the brain and control our bodies.

This spindly structure makes them very fragile so that when impacted, neurons will stretch and even tear.

That not only disrupts their ability to communicate but as destroyed axons begin to degenerate, they also release toxins causing the death of other neurons, too.

There are billions of interconnected neurons in an impossible tangle.

That's right; in just a few minutes, a pattern involving millions of neurons is being teleported into 1,200 minds, just by people listening to a voice and watching a face.

So here's the question: Can we grow axons and neurons down these channels?

Our limbs are full of sensory neurons responsible for everything from the textures we feel with our fingertips to our understanding of where our bodies are in space.

I'm in the field of research known as personality psychology, which is part of a larger personality science which spans the full spectrum, from neurons to narratives.

And these are the kinds of drawings that he made of neurons in the 19th century.

And from these kinds of serial electron microscopy slices, one can start to make reconstructions in 3D of neurons that look like these.

Only a few neurons lit up, because otherwise we wouldn't be able to see anything here.

But we knew that neurons used electricity, and by World War II, our technology was advanced enough to start doing real electrical experiments on live neurons to better understand how they worked.

So what's going on between the pixels, between the image of the bird and the word "bird," is essentially a set of neurons connected to each other in a neural network, as I'm diagramming here.

And those feed forward into one layer after another layer, after another layer of neurons, all connected by synapses of different weights.

And at the end of the day, you have a neuron or a small group of neurons that light up, saying, "bird."

So what we've learned over the first century of neuroscience is that the brain is a very complicated network, made out of very specialized cells called neurons with very complex geometries, and electrical currents will flow through these complexly shaped neurons.

Furthermore, neurons are connected in networks.

They're connected by little junctions called synapses that exchange chemicals and allow the neurons to talk to each other.

In a cubic millimeter of your brain, there are about 100,000 of these neurons and maybe a billion of those connections.

What you would see are thousands and thousands of kinds of biomolecules, little nanoscale machines organized in complex, 3D patterns, and together they mediate those electrical pulses, those chemical exchanges that allow neurons to work together to generate things like thoughts and feelings and so forth.

Now, we don't know how the neurons in the brain are organized to form networks, and we don't know how the biomolecules are organized within neurons to form these complex, organized machines.

But if we could get such maps, if we could look at the organization of molecules and neurons and neurons and networks, maybe we could really understand how the brain conducts information from sensory regions, mixes it with emotion and feeling, and generates our decisions and actions.

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