.<p>• THE BRAIN is less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony (or the Fediverse?)</p><p>The brain is an "interactionally complex system where functions emerge from distributed, overlapping networks of regions rather than being localised to specific areas. The interplay of constituent parts generates properties that defy reductive analysis."</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-human-brain-is-like-a-murmuration-of-starlings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/how-the-human-b</span><span class="invisible">rain-is-like-a-murmuration-of-starlings</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brain</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ComplexityScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComplexityScience</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/murmurations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>murmurations</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ParadigmShift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParadigmShift</span></a></p>