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11 Dimensional structures discovered in the brain (newsweek.com)
7 points by mikkom on June 14, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



I don't understand what they mean by 11 dimensions. Last I checked we only have 3 spacial dimensions (exotic theories notwithstanding).


You can have neurons connected to each other in ways that resemble the geometry of higher dimensions. Like, imagine that the vertices in this image are neurons, with the edges being connections between them: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Di...


What does that even mean? A football team is also a 11 dimensional or 11*N dimensional.




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