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Originally Posted by kennyc
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I just want to show you, that the future seems a lot brighter, than you think.
Please try to tell me your thoughts about humanity in the universe.
Maybe I will change your mind - or/and vice-versa...
Literally:
Dec. 22, 2007 Neuronal Circuits Able To Rewire On The Fly To Sharpen Senses:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1216155630.htm
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Researchers from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, have for the first time described a mechanism called "dynamic connectivity," in which neuronal circuits are rewired "on the fly" allowing stimuli to be more keenly sensed.
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"If you think of the brain like a computer, then the connections between neurons are like the software that the brain is running. Our work shows that this biological software is changed rapidly as a function of the kind of input that the system receives," said Nathan Urban, associate professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon.
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Dec. 27, 2005 MIT Researcher Finds Neuron Growth In Adult Brain:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1227111212.htm
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Despite the prevailing belief that adult brain cells don't grow, a researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory reports in the Dec. 27 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology that structural remodeling of neurons does in fact occur in mature brains.
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Nov. 14, 2007 Certain Mature Neurons Can Retain A Youthful Form Of Plasticity:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1108130203.htm
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It's a general belief that the circuitry of young brains has robust flexibility but eventually gets "hard-wired" in adulthood. As Johns Hopkins researchers and their colleagues report in the Nov. 8 issue of Neuron, however, adult neurons aren't quite as rigidly glued in place as we suspect.
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Why the brain would want such motile, non-connected branches is the next mystery to tackle. Linden thinks they may present a second mechanism for conveying information beyond traditional synapses or assist in nerve regeneration, quickly forming synapses should nearby nerves get damaged.
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2005-01-15, Sciencedaily: University Of Chicago Researchers Discovered That Humans Are A 'Privileged' Evolutionary Lineage:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0111170714.htm
Quote: "...The genes that regulate brain development and function evolved much more rapidly in humans than in nonhuman primates and other mammals because of natural selection processes unique to the human lineage..."Our study offers the first genetic evidence that humans occupy a unique position in the tree of life. Simply put, evolution has been working very hard to produce us humans."..."