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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This feels just as likely to be the ramblings of a crazy person as an actual map of the human brain.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's real, but cobbled together from multiple sources. For instance we haven't referred to the "reticular activating system" since maybe the 1980s? They call it the "reticular arousal system" which is either a neologism or maybe a reactivation of the term in the literature. I haven't been active in the area in over a decade.

I'll note that this broadly accurate on a macro level, but the details really matter. There are different cortical layers for instance and cell types and the nature of the signal processing differs by layer. So saying "X connects to Y" is useful in some sense, but provides much less information than you might imagine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I also am curous about the "fear of god." Pathway. It's right next to anxiety.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well shouldn't it be? lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you find it? The map is one massive shitpost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There is actual work on that by a guy named Michael Persinger using transcranial magnetic induction. He claimed to have found a region where stimulation produced a sense of the presence/fear of God. Persinger was a hack on many levels. He used a motorcycle helmet with holes drilled in it for the induction mount. Lete see if I can find a paper...

Well never mind. The kook died a few years ago. https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/breaking-laurentian-professor-michael-persinger-most-famous-for-his-god-helmet-passes-away-1016204

He also has a wikipedia page lol. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Damn. The lengths the religious go through just to bullshit the existance of god.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you look at the source (link on the right edge) it's a page with religious ramblings on how this disproves evolution because our nervous system is set up like a computer or microchip. Bibles quotes and all.

The chart is a great testament to how complicated our biology is and not much else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sure your brain doesn't have a Honeywell Military Internal Navigation System in it?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is part of my actual area of expertise. They mis-labeled the locus coeruleus as being "stress". Arousal would be more correct. They also missed Barrington's Nucleus right next to it which controls micturition. Absolute trash.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Note: vastly undersells the complexity.

For example the neurotransmitters listed are by no means all of the transmitters. We're still figuring out how many there are but the number is definitely more than 100.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

This feels like a joke

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Thanks for making it completely unintelligible

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is a cool guide to a descent into schizophrenic paranoia. I am genuinely concerned for the mental health of whoever made this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If you squint it looks like the start of r/place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Obviously intelligent design.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You forgot this: /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

And here I thought I didn’t understand computer chip engineering designs (or whatever they’re called).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

And here I am struggling with Visio, trying to make illustrations of relatively simple networks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Its literally just random shit strewn across the image? Why is this even here?