Last month, a neuroscience paper appeared that triggered a maelstrom of media hype:
The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 DimensionsThe human brain sees the world as an 11-dimensional multiverseScientists find mysterious shapes and structures in the brain with up to ELEVEN dimensions
The paper, published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, comes from the lab of Henry Markram, one of the world's most powerful neuroscientists. As well as being head of the Blue Brain Project at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Markram founded the €1 billion Human Brain Projectand co-founder of scientific publishing giant Frontiers. The new paper is fascinating. But the headlines were completely misleading: this paper has nothing to do with multiverses and very little to do with anything 11-dimensional. The paper is actually all about "cliques" of neurons. A clique is simply a group of neurons, each of which is connected to all ...
