Royal Statistical Society Publications
The human brain is made up of 90 billion neurons connected by more than 100 trillion synapses. It has been described as the most complicated thing in the world, but brain scientists say that is wrong: they think it is the most complicated thing in the known universe. Little wonder, then, that scientists have such trouble working out how our brain actually works. Not in a mechanical sense: we know, roughly speaking, how different areas of the brain control different aspects of our bodies and our emotions, and how these distinct regions interact. The questions that are more difficult to answer relate to the complex decision‐making processes each of us experiences: how do we form beliefs, assess evidence, make judgements, and decide on a course of action?
https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00935.x
The human brain is made up of 90 billion neurons connected by more than 100 trillion synapses. It has been described as the most complicated thing in the world, but brain scientists say that is wrong: they think it is the most complicated thing in the known universe. Little wonder, then, that scientists have such trouble working out how our brain actually works. Not in a mechanical sense: we know, roughly speaking, how different areas of the brain control different aspects of our bodies and our emotions, and how these distinct regions interact. The questions that are more difficult to answer relate to the complex decision‐making processes each of us experiences: how do we form beliefs, assess evidence, make judgements, and decide on a course of action?
https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00935.x
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