• Question: how do brains work?

    Asked by ankit to Martin on 16 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Martin Coath answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      That is a SERIOUSLY difficult question to answer because nobody knows the whole story.

      Here is the two minute version!

      Your brain is made up of cells – like most of the rest of you 🙂

      These cells comunicate with each other VERY quickly by sending out little pulses called “spikes”.

      Everything in your mind, your memories, your thoughts, your emotions, your dreams … every thought in your head is a pattern of these little pulses.

      The cells can fire up to 1000 times a second and there are about 1 000 000 000 000 000 of them so the patterns are very complicated!

      Is that enough? I’ve got lots more if you need it!

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