The Human Brain Is Capable Of Building Structures With Up To 11 Dimensions

Neuroscientist Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project and professor at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, said that the human brain is capable of building structures with up to 11 dimensions.

The structures of the human brain can operate in up to 11 dimensions, according to a little-known study (pdf below) that was published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience last year. The Blue Brain Project, a Swiss research effort, carried out the study.

"There are tens of millions of these objects even in a small speck of the brain, up through seven dimensions. In some networks, we even found structures with up to eleven dimensions."

"We found a world that we had never imagined," said neuroscientist Henry Markram, director of Blue Brain Project and professor at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.

"There are tens of millions of these objects even in a small speck of the brain, up through seven dimensions. In some networks, we even found structures with up to...

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