{"id":165654,"date":"2023-06-12T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T01:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-cosmic-connectome-our-universe-is-a-giant-brain-according-to-scientists"},"modified":"2023-06-12T20:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T01:24:59","slug":"the-cosmic-connectome-our-universe-is-a-giant-brain-according-to-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-cosmic-connectome-our-universe-is-a-giant-brain-according-to-scientists","title":{"rendered":"The Cosmic Connectome: Our Universe is a Giant Brain, According to Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-cosmic-connectome-our-universe-is-a-giant-brain-according-to-scientists3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new research at the intersection of cosmology and neurobiology implies that diverse physical processes lead to similar levels of complexity and self-organization present in structures of scales.<\/p>\n<p>An astrophysicist at the University of Bologna and a neurosurgeon at the University of Verona compared the network of neuronal cells in the human brain with the cosmic network of galaxies and found astounding similarities.<\/p>\n<p>In their paper <em>\u2018The quantitative comparison between the neuronal network and the cosmic web\u2019<\/em> published in <em>Frontiers in Physics<\/em>, Franco Vazza, astrophysicist at the University of Bologna, and Alberto Feletti, neurosurgeon at the University of Verona, investigated the similarities between two of the most complex systems in existence: the cosmic web of galactic superclusters and the network of neuronal cells in the human brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new research at the intersection of cosmology and neurobiology implies that diverse physical processes lead to similar levels of complexity and self-organization present in structures of scales. An astrophysicist at the University of Bologna and a neurosurgeon at the University of Verona compared the network of neuronal cells in the human brain with the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}