Tozzi, Arturo and Peters, James (2020) INFORMATION-DEVOID ROUTES FOR SCALE-FREE NEURODYNAMICS. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Neuroscientists are able to detect physical changes in information entropy in the available neurodata. However, the information paradigm is inadequate to describe fully nervous dynamics and mental activities such as perception. This paper suggests explanations to neural dynamics that provide an alternative to thermodynamic and information accounts. We recall the Banach–Tarski paradox (BTP), which informally states that when pieces of a ball are moved and rotated without changing their shape, a synergy between two balls of the same volume is achieved instead of the original one. We show how and why BTP might display this physical and biological synergy meaningfully, making it possible to model nervous activities. The anatomical and functional structure of the central nervous system’s nodes and edges makes it possible to perform a sequence of moves inside the connectome that doubles the amount of available cortical oscillations. In particular, a BTP-based mechanism permits scale-invariant nervous oscillations to amplify and propagate towards widely separated brain areas. Paraphrasing the BTP’s definition, we could state that: when a few components of a self-similar nervous oscillation are moved and rotated throughout the cortical connectome, two self-similar oscillations are achieved instead of the original one. Furthermore, based on topological structures, we illustrate how, counterintuitively, the amplification of scale-free oscillations does not require information transfer.
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| Keywords: | Banach–Tarski paradox; brain; power law; fractal; oscillations; information. | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Logic Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Cognitive Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Systems Neuroscience |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Arturo Tozzi | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2020 18:04 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2020 18:04 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 18167 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Logic Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Cognitive Neuroscience Specific Sciences > Neuroscience > Systems Neuroscience |
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| Date: | 7 June 2020 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18167 |
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