{"id":69666,"date":"2020-02-15T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69666"},"modified":"2020-02-15T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T16:52:54","slug":"reflections-on-an-existential-crisis-in-neuroscience-guitchounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/02\/15\/reflections-on-an-existential-crisis-in-neuroscience-guitchounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on “An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience” [Guitchounts]"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience<\/strong> <\/a>— from by Grigori Guitchounts
\nWe\u2019re mapping the brain in amazing detail\u2014but our brain can\u2019t understand the picture.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Neuroscientists have made considerable progress toward understanding brain architecture and aspects of brain function. We can identify brain regions that respond to the environment, activate our senses, generate movements and emotions. But we don\u2019t know how different parts of the brain interact with and depend on each other. We don\u2019t understand how their interactions contribute to behavior, perception, or memory. Technology has made it easy for us to gather behemoth datasets, but I\u2019m not sure understanding the brain has kept pace with the size of the datasets.<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/em><\/span>
\nThe word “mystery<\/strong><\/em><\/a>” comes to my mind when I read parts of this thought-provoking article — as does the phrase “Glory to God!<\/a>“<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As I’ve watched my mom slowly leave us due to Alzheimer’s (as did my grandma on her side) and as I’ve watched my good friend prepare to leave us due to cancer, I’m also reminded to be grateful for the people in my life when they’re still there. Plus, I’m reminded to be thankful for good health when I have it. It may be cliche, but it’s true. And I’ll end this posting with another one:<\/span><\/p>\n

“One doesn’t know the worth of water until the well’s run dry.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience — from by Grigori Guitchounts We\u2019re mapping the brain in amazing detail\u2014but our brain can\u2019t understand the picture. Excerpt: Neuroscientists have made considerable progress toward understanding brain architecture and aspects of brain function. We can identify brain regions that respond to the environment, activate our senses, generate movements and emotions. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,72,425,500,102,223,560,101,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faith","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-learning","category-learning-theories","category-parents-guardians","category-psychology","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69669,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69666\/revisions\/69669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}