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RE: Are you really using only 10% of your brain?
Thank you for you post! Very interesting.
The "binary message" from a neuron (to fire or not to fire) can produce 26 different sizes of neurons.
Not sure I understand this. How can a binary message (to fire or not) can produce 26 different ... what? This I also don't understand. Can you explain it in little more details? Thank you.
It is not exactly binary, that is why I put it in the quotation marks. The binary message from a neuron (to fire or not to fire) can create 26 different sizes of neurons means that there are 26 different neurons that may get produced. Usually, binary means that yes is 1 and no is 0 but here yes means 26 different things. Did I help at all with this answer?
Yes, thank you, it is a bit clearer now. But I still struggle with this "production of neurons" thing. I thought that a message from a neuron just goes to another neuron through synapses, not produces a new neuron. Or that just means that the source neuron can be in one of 26 different (activation) states?
Neurons could come in 26 different sizes. Neurogenesis talks about the creation of neurons, the last thing I have read about it was this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-the-adult-brain-really-grow-new-neurons/