Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain

Read more at http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227141.200-disorderly-genius-how-chao.... Have you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time? You may think that such fleeting thoughts, however random they seem, must be the product of predictable and rational processes. After all, the brain cannot be random, can it? Surely it processes information using ordered, logical operations, like a powerful computer?

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[ftwsmp]

Creationists' brains are very light blue all of the time.

[bullbunnies]

I'm in neuroscience and all of this crap.

you can't localize any of these 'brain waves' inside the brain, and we have no idea how anything is representented/processed in the brain.

those are just pretty pictures, they don't answer any questions

[ThegodisAbraxas]

00:50-1:14 is what my brain feels like on pot

[TheMasterofWisdom]

@ftwsmp haters gunna hate

[jadeeslayton]

interesting

[Zareste]

keep trying

[kennyvsspenny24]

I knew I wasn't crazy. Thanks Science!

[theshninja]

@ftwsmp Creationists have brains!?

[benpetrofsky]

@bullbunnies

There's absolutely no way we can truly understand the power of the human brain, but unfortunately, this is all we have right now to study its behavior in depth. I don't think this answers questions, but it helps paint a picture (a very vague and simple one compared to the actual brain) of what it does and how it does it. I don't think we should discredit this entirely or anything

[DKM101]

i love simelations

[mattisthegodofwar]

wut.