Computing power

Thirty billion neurons in the average human brain
Each neuron is networked to its neighbor via multiple synapses
Creating nearly one million billion synaptic connections
These connection in turn create a very large numbers of neural circuits
The actual number is Enormous, It is the number 10 followed by one million zeros
To give some kind of scale to those numbers, the total number of atoms in the entire universe is estimated to be the number ………………. …………………. 10 followed by 80 zeros 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00

So.... The number of atoms in the entire universe is smaller than the possible number of neural circuits in your own brain ( by several orders of magnitude )
By extensive cross-referencing of available human neuroanatomical data we produce a consistent set of parameters for the whole brain, the,cerebral cortex, and the cerebellar cortex. By comparing these inferred values with those predicted by the expressions, we draw the following general conclusions for the human brain, cortex, cerebellum:
(i) Interior packing is less efficient than exterior packing (in a sphere).
(ii) Fully and randomly connected topologies are extremely inefficient.
More specifically we find evidence that different topologies and physical packing strategies might be used at different scales. (iii) For the human brain at a macrostructural level, modular topologies on an exterior sphere approach the data most closely. (iv) On a mesostructural level, laminarization and columnarization are evidence of the superior efficiency of organizing the wiring as sheets. (v) Within sheets, microstructures emerge in which interior models are shown to be the most efficient. With regard to interspecies similarities and differences we conjecture (vi) that the remarkable constancy of number of neurons per underlying
mm 2 of cortex may be the result of evolution minimizing interneuron distance in grey matter, and (vii) that the topologies that best fit the human brain data should not be assumed to apply to other mammals, such as the mouse for which
we show that a random topology may be feasible for the cortex

It’s not the number of brain cells that matter so much as the possible number of connections
And why is the corpus callosum so narrow (The corpus callosum is a structure in the longitudinal fissure that connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres)

Someday

And someday, is just another day
And so far, it’s just another way
For us to get beyond today
And still it’s just still so far away
And that’s ok but, it’s not alright
Dreaming of sleeping speaking of sight
Is giving of visions and taking the light
And still it’s just another day
So very, very far away
Darkness for all for none may stay
Yet you never truly go away
You were never even really here they say
And that’s ok but, it’s not alright

Rhomboidal parallelograms are quadrilateral

One of many bisecting diagonals
Whose opposite sides can always intersect?
Most of my relationships are like that
Being sensitive about my inferior vena cava

No love
To live a life without ...love leaving
Impressions of a life achieving
Mainline pipe dreams all along the way
It’s the jagged heart that bleeds free

The regular Octahedron is/are platonic solid
Everyone agrees upon that except….
There are 257 convex octahedra
Complex simplicity

Know love
To know that love is not just grieving
To live your life without perceiving
You are the thing you always knew you’d be
Shadows forming out of the light

Added to the Loss

In the bleeding sides of exhilaration
Adding and subtracting
Positives and negatives
Subtracted additionally?
Partially completed
Externally centralized
Becoming loosely stuck together
Like the dried fluids of amore
Imploding after.... a fit of expansion
Asymptotically added to the loss
Is praying for nihilism anachronistic?
If X and Y axes are asymptotes
Of the hyperbola
Then added to the loss
Asymptotically may still = 1
As non merging points
On converging curves
Consensus is arrived at in infinity
Or denied forever (decreasing radii)
Added to the loss
Catastrophic failure is
Added to the loss
Add Loss Add Loss Sad loss
Sad loss Sad loss

Dave Brackeen
Copyright ©2009 Dave Brackeen

Origional db Quote

Best done in a smooth southern drawl
Many things have transpired of which I am unaware
But of those of which I am aware I do like to be cognizant of ..

Unknown shithouse poet.....1974

He who writes on bathroom walls
Rolls his shit in little balls
He who read these words of wit
Eat those little balls of shit.

First Amendment - Religion and Expression The Blah. Blah. Blah. According to Dave.

Saturday, August 15, 2009
First Amendment - Religion and Expression The Blah Blah Blah according to Dave
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,

They are no longer servants

Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,

They are no longer representatives

Or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,

They are now Authority

And to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

They are now Officials and they run things

The first amendment has been amended and made to preclude you and I.
For we are or I am a Civilian and somehow, not quite a free as some other americans
Aberrant malfunctioning as I may be I am still American

Madison's original proposal for a bill of rights provision concerning religion read:
''The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship,
Nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretence, infringed.''

1. The language was altered in the House of Representatives to read;
''Congress shall make no law establishing religion, or to prevent the free exercise thereof, or to infringe the rights of conscience.''

2. In the Senate, the section adopted read:
''Congress shall make no law establishing articles of faith, or a mode of worship, or prohibiting the free exercise of religion, . . .

3. It was in the conference committee of the two bodies, chaired by Madison, that the present language was written with its some what more indefinite ''respecting'' phraseology.

4. Debate in Congress lends little assistance in interpreting the religion clauses; Madison's position, as well as that of Jefferson who influenced him, is fairly clear,

5. But the intent, insofar as there was one, of the others in Congress who voted for the language and those in the States who voted to ratify is subject to speculation.

Not So Scholarly Commentary --The explication of the religion clauses by the scholars has followed a restrained sense of their meaning. take Story for instance, who thought that ''the right of a society or government to interfere in matters of religion will hardly be contested by any persons, who believe that piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of the state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice,'' looked upon the prohibition simply as an exclusion from the Federal Government of all power to act upon the subject. ''The situation . . . of the different states equally proclaimed the policy, as well as the necessity of such an exclusion. In some of the states, episcopalians constituted the predominant sect; in others presbyterians; in others, congregationalists; in others, quakers; and in others again, there was a close numerical rivalry among contending sects. It was impossible, that there should not arise perpetual strife and perpetual jealousy on the subject of ecclesiastical ascendancy, if the national government were left free to create a religious establishment. The only security was in extirpating the power. But this alone would have been an imperfect security, if it had not been followed up by a declaration of the right of the free exercise of religion, and a prohibition (as we have seen) of all religious tests. Thus, the whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the state governments, to be acted upon according to their own sense of justice, and the state constitutions; and the Catholic and the Protestant, the Calvinist and the Armenian, the Jew and the Infidel, ad nausem, may sit down at the common table of the national councils, without any inquisition into their faith, or mode of worship.
''Unless of course George W Bush, should be in charge".
What a crock of shit, Post 911, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Iraq, Afghanistan, all are extrusions of Religious faith/fervor, Terrorism being the most passionate of the lot or at least the most expressive. and if you don't think so, ask any Hebrew why they (as a group) no longer name there children "Joshua"






Alright enough of this for now. More later perhap

Living without you

It’s what it’s like when you don’t like what you know
I didn’t want to live without you
Unknown understanding isn’t prophesy
I didn’t know how to live without you
Portents in the entrails of a goat, Splatiomancy
Live without you or die
Divining the future in the smoke of sacrifice
Dying isn’t living without you
Toss the bones and Augurie events
Living without you is living without you
Consult Pythia the Oracle of Delphi
I love living without you
It’s what it’s like when you don’t know what it’s like

asymptote

Dave Brackeen: asymptotically!
Other person: Huh?
Dave Brackeen: In Geometry an asymptote of a curve is a way of describing its behavior far away from its point of origin by comparing it to another curve.
Other person: Oh!
Dave Brackeen: Specifically, the second curve is an asymptote of the first if distance between the two approaches 0 as the points being considered tend towards paralleling infinity
Other person Please specify
Dave Brackeen Ok! well informally, this means that the first curve gets closer to the second as it gets farther from its origin. Now one important case would be when the asymptote is a straight line; this is called a linear asymptote (or simply asymptote if there is no chance of confusion). (My favorite part is the parenthesis)
Other person: Oh!
Dave Brackeen You see if curve A has the curve B as an asymptote, one says that A is asymptotic to B. Similarly B is asymptotic to A, so A and B are called asymptotic
Other person: Oh gotcha

Points upon a careless Curve

No pattern recognition Software defined
No such Planetary Nebula in evidence
Also a misnomer and as such
I was misinformed by chironzon again
A guardian of the abyss may speak in jest
While ferrying the unwary across the Styx
Sometimes you just have to say Stop It
Uneasy rests the jester on the dead king’s head
A crown of thorns can bring about laughter
Leading one to ponder the nature of humor
What is it? Interrupted survival mechanism
What specie would willing permit that?
Who interrupts a survival mechanism?
Sometimes you just have to say Stop It
How can you keep on keeping on?
When life itself no longer has any meaning
When the things that define you as yourself
Become moot points on a careless curve
You can only become so sorry
Before you reach the point of no concern
Sometimes you just have to say Stop It

Boots first law of opposition:

Boots first law of opposition:
If you kick something hard enough
It will fall over
Testicles are deviant to boots first law.

Terry

To much to small to be to big
To see to where it ends
But then again to see without
Or look within again

Now there are those
Who see within
But they are left without
And so it seems to those with sight
Of daunting distance to still the night
And still to travel with lonely heart
Whose heart rent travels would never start
Neither slows from freezing, nor empty soul
Or end such tedious barrel roll

To much to be to much to say
To see the end is to know the way
But no such path is decreed by another
And so he left. he died. my brother.

There are those who say that coming down from the trees was a mistake

There are those who say that coming down from the trees was a mistake
The Pliocene is the progenitor of that particular madness
For millions of years we walked upon all fours when on the ground
And acted like arboreal apes the rest of the time
But the Pliocene with its draughts in the millions of years
Took with it all the trees, And most of the protein
Wherein flesh became more than staple food stuff
And then there was that double knobbed antelope hip bone
Wonderful tool for smashing a skull with
As thousands of fossil skull bones testify to its efficacy, and they were similarly equipped
Angular gyrus one arching over the superior temporal sulcus, continuous with the middle temporal gyrus
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll
There are those who say that coming down from the trees was a mistake

Something in my Head!

No flocular lobes
Making do with a cerebellum
That overly cortex jammed telencephalon
Let us never forget the “White Matter Tracks”
Bummer dude
Fraught with simile & seemingly pregnant
With metaphorical referent
Who named those things anyway?
My need to over describe is compulsive
Bummer dude
Logorrhea i am told is death for me
Where prolixity is marketable, apparently I am not!
That incoherent talkativeness only
Occurs in certain kinds of mental illness
Is not that question for the aegis of the ages?
Is Loss of proprioception contralateral?
Aggression, dementia, seizures won’t wait
Surface of left cerebral hemisphere irregular
Why not an over developed fusiform gyrus instead
I’ll take unusual brain structures for 500 Alex
Bummer dude