Game · The Mind

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Slide the tiles, merge the matches, and climb from a single spark all the way up to a whole mind. The ladder isn't random: it's the real scale of your nervous system.

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✓ The nervous system is organised hierarchically across scales: signalling molecules and synapses combine into neurons, neurons into local circuits, circuits into cortical columns and larger regions, regions into lobes and hemispheres, and the whole into the brain, the physical basis of the mind. , Standard neuroscience of hierarchical brain organisation; Kandel et al., 'Principles of Neural Science'

✓ The adult human brain contains on the order of 86 billion neurons, each connected to thousands of others, forming the dense networks from which perception, memory and thought emerge. , Azevedo et al., 'Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled-up primate brain,' Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2009

≈ A cortical column is a proposed basic repeating unit of the neocortex, a vertical group of interconnected neurons spanning the cortical layers, that tiles the cortex into larger functional regions. , Mountcastle, 'The columnar organization of the neocortex,' Brain, 1997