Sand in the Brain: A Fundamental Theory To Model the Mind

An anonymous reader writes "In 1999, the Danish physicist Per Bak proclaimed to a group of neuroscientists that it had taken him only 10 minutes to determine where the field had gone wrong. Perhaps the brain was less complicated than they thought, he said. Perhaps, he said, the brain worked on the same fundamental principles as a simple sand pile, in which avalanches of various sizes help keep the entire system stable overall — a process he dubbed 'self-organized criticality.'"

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[NotQuiteReal]

Careful - the username has "007" in it, so you have to assume they have a license to kill.

Heh, we'll never hear from THAT Anonymous Coward again...

or will we?